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say it: A-kwuh-fur
aquifer is a noun meaning "underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc". It carries one recorded sense.
underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aquifer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.