[ UK /bɹˈækɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹækɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
    the briny deep
    a brackish lagoon
  2. distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture
    a thin brackish gruel
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How To Use brackish In A Sentence

  • Its route will pass mainly through soft rock and above deep-lying, brackish ground water.
  • Estuaries (where fresh river water meets salty ocean water) are examples of brackish waters.
  • They hunt for camel meat by putting land mines around the region's brackish waterholes.
  • A continuing supply of freshwater from streams entering the lake would have stimulated the growth of algae and other freshwater organisms, resulting in a mix of brackish and freshwater species.
  • I have certainly run into references to growing them in brackish setups, but I have ever seen any pictures or real descriptions and wonder if these might just be based on biotope records. Brackish tank project
  • The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet — brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Breed exclusively by fresh and brackish water and marshes; often in coastal waters on migration.
  • Members of the Monodactylidae family are marine fish that spend a portion of their lives in fresh or brackish water.
  • Brackish and ocean waters may contain large quantities of sodium chloride as well as many other soluble compounds leached from the crust of the earth.
  • THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound. Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
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