Preferred Name

estuary
Synonyms

estuaries

estuarine

tidal creek

Definitions

A semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Expressions of the estuarine biome occur at wide lower courses of a rivers where they flows into a sea. Estuaries experience tidal flows and their water is a changing mixture of fresh and salt. {@en}

ID

http://purl.jp/bio/11/meo/MEO_0000087

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A semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Expressions of the estuarine biome occur at wide lower courses of a rivers where they flows into a sea. Estuaries experience tidal flows and their water is a changing mixture of fresh and salt. {@en}

equivalentClass

http://purl.jp/bio/11/meo/MEO_0000178

hasExactSynonym

estuaries

estuarine

tidal creek

isDefinedBy

http://purl.jp/bio/11/meo/

label

estuary

prefixIRI

MEO_0000087

prefLabel

estuary

subClassOf

http://purl.jp/bio/11/meo/MEO_0000164

http://purl.jp/bio/11/meo/MEO_0000819

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