brackish

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The water available during the April to August growing season tends to be brackish, which isn't good for most crops.

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  1. adjective Having a somewhat salty taste, especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water: "You could cut the brackish winds with a knife/Here in Nantucket” (Robert Lowell).
  2. adjective Distasteful; unpalatable: a thin, brackish gruel.

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  • Field guide to the commercial marine and brackish-water species of T yanzania. —  Refinance 2nd Mortgage
  • Field guide t oohek commercial marine and brackish-water species of Tanzania. —  Refinance 2nd Mortgage
  • Robert Keser: "Neither the light-hearted bonbon it aspires to be nor a credible critique of celebrity culture, the trivialized tastes more like a brackish lollipop, after which audiences may well crave a few hours with to cleanse the palate." —  GreenCine Daily
  • The water available during the April to August growing season tends to be brackish, which isn't good for most crops. —  Articles
  • If last week was a wakeup call for the Wolverine faithful and the rest of the college football world, this game is the first cup of oily, brackish, overextracted coffee after that wakeup call.
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  1. From Dutch brak.

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  1. Early modern English brakish; from brack + -ish.
 

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