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Definition of haliçe in Turkish English dictionary
- estuary
- a wide lower part of a tidal river
- A partially enclosed body of water formed where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salty seawater before flowing into the ocean Estuaries support unique communities of plants and animals and serve as nursery grounds for many species of fish and shellfish
- The lowermost part of a river system that is a mixture of fresh water and sea water
- The shallow water areas of bays or the mouths of rivers and creeks This is the place where ocean tides meet and mix with fresh water
- Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge
- n (L aestuarium, part of the seacoast over which the tide ebbs and flows, from aestus, the tide) an inlet or arm of the sea; especially the wide mouth of a river, where the tide meets the current pl estuaries
- (a) The seaward end or the widened funnel-shaped tidal mouth of a river valley where fresh water comes into contact with seawater and where tidal effects are evident; e g a tidal river, or a partially enclosed coastal body of water where the tide meets the current of a stream (b) A portion of an ocean, as a firth or an arm of the sea, affected by fresh water; e g the Baltic Sea (c) A drowned river mouth formed by the subsidence of land near the coast or by the drowning of the lower portion of a nonglaciated valley due to the rise of sea level
- {i} place where the river current meets the sea tide (as in the mouth of a river)
- The broad lower course of a river that is encroached on by the sea and affected by the tides
- An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water
- Somewhat enclosed coastal area at the mouth of a river where nutrient rich fresh water meets with salty ocean water
- Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata
- A place where freshwater and salt water meet (i e where a river meets the ocean or the Gulf of Mexico)
- A bay or drowned valley where a river meets the sea It is a zone where fresh and salt water mix and in which nutrients washed from the land can collect Often highly productive areas in biological terms, frequently serving as nursery areas for a variety of marine lifeforms
- A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth
- A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith
- An inlet of the sea where the salty water meets fresh water at the lower portion or wide mouth of a river
- Regions of interaction between rivers and near-shore ocean waters, where tidal action and river flow create a mixing of fresh and salt water (Source: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, 1990)
- (1) A semi-enclosed coastal body of water which has a free connection with the OPEN SEA The seawater is usually measurably diluted with freshwater (2) The part of the RIVER that is affected by TIDES (3) (SMP) The zone or area of water in which freshwater and saltwater mingle and water is usually brackish due to daily mixing and layering of fresh and salt water
- a bay or inlet, often at the mouth of a river, in which large quantities of freshwater and seawater mix together These unique habitats are necessary nursery grounds for many marine fishes and shellfishes
Turkish - Turkish
Definition of haliçe in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- (Osmanlı Dönemi) ince dokunmuş küçük halı
- HALİÇE
- (Osmanlı Dönemi) Küçük halı. Kilim. Seccâde. Kaliçe de yazılır