Estuary

Noun

 * 1) Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge.
 * 2) An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.

Derived terms

 * Estuary English

Thesaurus
arm, armlet, avenue, bay, bayou, belt, bight, blowhole, boca, channel, chute, cove, creek, debouch, door, egress, emunctory, escape, euripus, exhaust, exit, fjord, floodgate, flume, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, loophole, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sally port, sluice, sound, spiracle, spout, strait, straits, tap, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir

Etymology
From aestuarium:.

Translations

 * Dutch: estuarium
 * Finnish: murtovesi (alue)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: tölcsértorkolat
 * Icelandic: ármynni,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 河口 (かこう kakō)
 * Malay:
 * Russian: эстуарий
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: