# freshwater
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh +‎ water.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/
* Hyphenation: fresh‧wa‧ter
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

freshwater (not comparable)
* Living in fresh water.
    The trout is a freshwater fish.
* Consisting of fresh water.
    Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.
* (nautical) Unskilled as a seaman.
** 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:“Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […]
* (economics) neoclassical, in reference to U.S. macroeconomics and economics departments near the Great Lakes.
** 2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86.
    Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher.
    Synonym: sweetwater

#### Hypernyms

* aquatic

#### Hyponyms

* lentic
* lotic
* wetland

#### Derived terms

* freshwater crayfish
* freshwater drum
* freshwater hydra
* freshwater pearl mussel
* freshwater shark
* freshwater soldier
* North American freshwater catfish

#### Translations
### Noun

freshwater (countable and uncountable, plural freshwaters)
* (countable) A body of fresh water
** 1953, Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, volumes 3-4, page 100:Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]
** 1967, Bent J. Muus, The Fauna of Danish Estuaries and Lagoons‎, page 87:Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2.
** 2013, Brian R. Moss, Ecology of Fresh Waters: A View for the Twenty-First Century:The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses.
** 2015, Sophie Lake, Durwyn Liley, Robert Still, Britain's Habitats:Freshwaters are portrayed in many artforms, including books such as Kenneth Grahame's childrens' story Wind in the Willows.
* Alternative spelling of fresh water
** 1978, Roger M. Waller, John T. Turk, Robert J. Dingman, “Potential effects of deep-well waste disposal in western New York”, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 21:Schematic diagram of the viscosity effect during the injection of freshwater.
** 2002, Friedrich A. Schott, Physical Oceanography of the Indian Ocean During WOCE‎, page 1246:Above 200m, high-salinity water was being carried southward out of the Arabian Sea. This implies that most of the freshwater was imported into the Arabian Sea in the upper layer.
** 2011, Guy Levy, P. Fine, A. Bar-Tal, Treated Wastewater in Agriculture‎:Actual field data of Cl distribution in soil after irrigation with TWW and freshwater were obtained in a field experiment in Israel (Feigin et al., 2005; Fine et al. 2007).
** 2014 April 20, Richard Conniff, “An evolutionary family drama”, in The New York Times‎:Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.