estuarine

1. 1.

   of or relating to or found in estuaries

   Synonymsestuarial

Questions about estuarine

What does estuarine mean?

estuarine means "of or relating to or found in estuaries".

How many syllables are in estuarine?

estuarine has 4 syllables and divides as e-stu-a-rine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for estuarine?

Close synonyms include estuarial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is estuarine a common word?

estuarine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.