freshwater

adj

Etymology: From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh + water.

1. Living in fresh water.

   “The trout is a freshwater fish.”

2. Consisting of fresh water.

   “Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.”

3. Unskilled as a seaman.

   ““Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […]”

4. Neoclassical, in reference to the macroeconomics and economic departments near the Great Lakes.

   “2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86. Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher.”

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noun

Etymology: From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh + water.

1. A body of fresh water.

   “Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]”

   “Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2.”

2. Alternative form of fresh water.

   “Schematic diagram of the viscosity effect during the injection of freshwater.”

   “Above 200m, high-salinity water was being carried southward out of the Arabian Sea. This implies that most of the freshwater was imported into the Arabian Sea in the upper layer.”