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fresh water

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Noun1.fresh water - water that is not salty
freshwater
H2O, water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
rainwater, rain - drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds
condensate - a product of condensation
brine, saltwater, seawater - water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater"


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Toward midnight the wind and sea abated, so that shortly after dawn I determined to make inshore in an attempt to effect a landing, for we were sadly in need of fresh water and food.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
This theory assumes that the Great Lakes were the deep pools of one immense body of fresh water, which lay too low to be drained by the irruption that laid bare the land.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
And it is in fresh water that we find seven genera of Ganoid fishes, remnants of a once preponderant order: and in fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders now widely separated in the natural scale.
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