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freshwater [ˈfrɛʃˌwɔːtə] n (modifier) 1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Angling) of, relating to, or living in fresh water 2. (Transport / Nautical Terms) (esp of a sailor who has not sailed on the sea) unskilled or inexperienced 3. US small and little known a freshwater school
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| Yet I will promise you that on our way we shall find time to pass Freshwater and to prevail upon these rovers to leave you in peace. But after some preliminary remarks, I will discuss a few of the most striking classes of facts; namely, the existence of the same species on the summits of distant mountain-ranges, and at distant points in the arctic and antarctic regions; and secondly (in the following chapter), the wide distribution of freshwater productions; and thirdly, the occurrence of the same terrestrial species on islands and on the mainland, though separated by hundreds of miles of open sea. But the cliffs of Freshwater it shall never touch, and the island will guard the Island's purity till the end of time. |
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