estuary
美音:
[´estʃu´erı
]英音:
[´estʃu´erı
]n.河口,江口
难易程度:
estuary为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
名词复数:estuaries 形容词:estuarial
近义词, 同义词
estuary
/'estʃʊərɪ; [US] -ʊerɪ; `ɛstʃu,ɛrɪ/
n [C] wide river mouth into which the tide flows 河口湾
*the Thames estuary 泰晤士河河口.
estuary
npluralestuaries[C]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin;Origin: aestuarium, from aestus 'boiling, tide']
the wide part of a river where it goes into the sea
the Thames estuary