Definition of fresh-water

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Fresh-water (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels..

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Piraya :: Piraya (n.) A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of South America, having lancet-shaped teeth..
Copepoda :: Copepoda (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine..
Bell Animalcule :: Bell animalcule () An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds..
Rockfish :: Rockfish (n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
Goggle-eye :: Goggle-eye (n.) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidae, esp. Chaenobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes..
Anas :: Anas (n.) A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks..
Sauger :: Sauger (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel..
Sheatfish :: Sheatfish (n.) A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid..
Graining :: Graining (n.) A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace..
Billfish :: Billfish (n.) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
Fresh-water :: Fresh-water (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels..
Moorball :: Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Hydrina :: Hydrina (n. pl.) The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong.
Ablen :: Ablen () A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.
Blob :: Blob (n.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States..
Widgeon :: Widgeon (n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly..
Silverfin :: Silverfin (n.) A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
Waterman :: Waterman (n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman..
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