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Wiktionary

  1. fresh-wateradjective

    Alternate spelling of freshwater.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fresh-wateradjective

    of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels

  2. Fresh-wateradjective

    accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor

  3. Fresh-wateradjective

    unskilled; raw

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fresh-water in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fresh-water in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of fresh-water in a Sentence

  1. John Cleese:

    Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  2. Bhim Singh Rawat:

    The river in Delhi's stretch is an ecologically dead river, it doesn't have fish or fresh water birds. That has been the case for years now.

  3. The Alberta Energy Regulator:

    The remaining 55 pipelines affected by the order, which contain several products, including crude oil, natural gas, salt water, fresh water and emulsion, continue to be suspended, these pipelines ... will not return to service until Nexen can demonstrate that the pipelines can be operated safely and within all requirements.

  4. Alan Fenwick:

    The problem that sub Saharan Africa has is a lack of fresh water, safe water, and adequate sanitation, people who need to urinate and defecate tend to do so on the open ground, and their excreta can be washed into water where the eggs will then infect snails.

  5. Erin Fougères:

    We are seeing higher numbers in Mississippi and Louisiana and we are concerned about fresh water, it's an exceptionally wet winter for the entire United States and it's the wettest winter in the Mississippi Valley in the past 124 years.


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