seawater
noun/ˈsiˌwɔtər/
Frequency rank: #11,534 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
water from the sea, typically salty and containing dissolved minerals.
Example sentence
The scientists collected seawater samples from three different ocean depths.
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