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Definition of Fresh water

1. Noun. Water that is not salty.

Definition of Fresh water

1. Noun. Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Fresh water

1. 1. Water containing no significant amounts of salts, such as rivers and lakes. 2. Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh water fish; fresh water mussels. 3. Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh water sailor. 4. Unskilled; raw. Fresh water soldiers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fresh Water

Literary usage of Fresh water

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1900)
"Distribution of fresh-water productions—On the inhabitants of oceanic ... Fresh-water Productions. As lakes and river-systems are separated from each other ..."

2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Hence the generality of ice, when dissolved, affords fresh water. ... and then be washed in fresh water, ft will be found to be nearly quite free from salt, ..."

3. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Edward Fitzgibbon (1854)
"A fresh-run salmon, that is, a fish that has just entered the fresh water, is in its best condition, which it loses bit by bit every day it remains in the ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"Fresh-water Polyzoa. ... are ordinarily marine animals, fresh-water examples from this Order are not altogether wanting. ..."

5. Hygiene of Communicable Diseases: A Handbook for Sanitarians, Medical by Francis Merton Munson, John Harington, Francis Randolph Packard, Fielding Hudson Garrison (1920)
"The Navy Regulations require commanding officers not to limit, unless absolutely necessary, tbe daily allowance of fresh water to less than 1 gallon per man ..."

6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"In a recent paper by one of us1 reference has been made to the deposits carrying these fresh-water shells, which were first noted by Nugent.2 His collection ..."

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