Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.

* 2011 , Jim Perrin, The Guardian , 28 May 2011:

A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

(of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.

* 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

...by a low cour?e and too long ?porting with the briny Ocean it ta?ts bracki?h and in?alubrious...

* 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4.

On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.

* 2004, , Random House.

The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.

; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. (rfex)

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