The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fresh-water \Fresh"-wa`ter\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water which is not salty; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.
Unskilled; raw. [Colloq.] ``Fresh-water soldiers.''
--Knolles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of freshwater English)
Usage examples of "fresh-water".
Chapter XII Geographical Distribution -- continued Distribution of fresh-water productions -- On the inhabitants of oceanic islands -- Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial Mammals -- On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those of the nearest mainland -- On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification -- Summary of the last and present chapters.
Chapter XII Geographical Distribution--continued Distribution of fresh-water productions -- On the inhabitants of oceanic islands -- Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial Mammals -- On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those of the nearest mainland -- On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification -- Summary of the last and present chapters.
Soon there would be fresh-water dolphins and manatees swimming below, with lake bass to feed them.
As lakes and river-systems are separated from each other by barriers of land, it might have been thought that fresh-water productions would not have ranged widely within the same country, and as the sea is apparently a still more impassable barrier, that they never would have extended to distant countries.
We should not forget the probability of many species having formerly ranged as continuously as fresh-water productions ever can range, over immense areas, and having subsequently become extinct in intermediate regions.
So it is with most fresh-water productions, in which so many genera range over the world, and many individual species have enormous ranges.
There are little centres in the heart of great cities, just as there are small fresh-water ponds in great islands with the salt sea roaring all round them, and bays and creeks penetrating them as briny as the ocean itself.
Frena, ovigerous, of cirripedes Fresh-water productions, dispersal of Fries on species in large genera being closely allied to other species Frigate-bird Frogs on islands Fruit-trees, gradual improvement of.
Chaffers took the dingey and went up two or three miles further, where she also grounded, but in a fresh-water river.
There were low couches along the walls, covered with draperies of native weaving, or the skins of the ayu, a sort of fresh-water seal found in the Benuwe.
A young Martian, there can now be no dispute, was really born upon earth during the war, and it was found attached to its parent, partially budded off, just as young lilybulbs bud off, or like the young animals in the fresh-water polyp.
It was one of the largest fresh-water fish in the world, and had enormous scales, frequently six inches long, the scales being used by the native women as manicuring instruments.
There is, for example, an African fresh-water fish, the Mormyrid, which often lives in murky water where visual detection of predators, prey or mates is difficult.
A sea squirt was shoring himself up with the flow from an undersea fresh-water spring, getting tipsy on the rare liquid.