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seawater

noun as in salt water

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The skeleton is indeed made of glass, which the animal, Euplectella aspergillum — nicknamed “Venus’ flower basket,” — creates using acid extracted from seawater.

It would be useful to know whether it also would break down in seawater, she adds.

The region is known for thousand-year-old salterns that produce fleur de sel, or flower of salt—salt that forms as seawater evaporates.

While watching them, he noticed how seawater covered open blowholes.

Storm surge is the height to which the seawater level rises as a result of a storm, on top of the normal tidal level.

The seawater once covering 26,000 square miles vanishes into desert.

Anguilla is an arid, flat Caribbean island surrounded on all sides by seawater.

In effect, then, the resort is harnessing the power of the sun to turn seawater into a nourishing resource—for people and plants.

And for that, it turned to the one resource it has in abundance—aside from seawater.

Then Hurricane Sandy dumped four feet of dirty seawater into his building.

This could, however, only now be looked upon as lost; for the seawater must have spoilt everything eatable.

His thick, black hair that he had combed straight back with his fingers, dripped seawater on his bronzed, muscular shoulders.

Clothes that are made wet with seawater, which probably has a little sand in it, are as uncomfortable as crumbs in bed.

I'm numb with heat--I can imagine myself thirsty for disaster drinking seawater and thinking there's a spring nearby.

"That's so," said the other sailor, tormented like the other two by thirst, aggravated by his draughts of seawater.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to seawater, such as: brine, briny, and saline.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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