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Topic: GEOGRAPHY

Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: aestuarium, from aestus 'boiling, tide'

estuary

 noun
     
es‧tu‧a‧ry plural estuaries [countable]
SG the wide part of a river where it goes into the sea:
the Thames estuary
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