different between estuarine vs saltie

English

Adjective

estuarine (comparative more estuarine, superlative most estuarine)

1. Of or pertaining to an estuary.
   • 1977, Sewell H. Hopkins, Sam R. Petrocelli, Limiting Factors Affecting the Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Estuarine Pollution Control and Assessment: Proceedings of a Conference, Volume 1, page 179,

     The shellfishes, by far the most valuable part of gulf coast commercial fisheries, are even more estuarine than the finfishes.

   • 1980, Joseph T. Kelley, Sediment Introduction and Deposition in a Coastal Lagoon, Cape May, New Jersey, Victor S Kennedy (editor), Estuarine Perspectives, Academic Press, page 379,

     The small lagoons of southern New Jersey receive an insignificant input of freshwater from watersheds of Cape May Peninsula compared to larger, more estuarine bays to the north (Kran 1975).

   • 2000, Stephen J. M. Blaber, Tropical Estuarine Fishes: Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation, Blackwell Science, page 80,

     Some species are more estuarine than others, for example Pseudotolithus typus replaces P. senegalensis as conditions become more estuarine and Pentanemus quinquarius replaces Galeoides decadactylus.

2. (geology) Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition.

Translations

Latin

Adjective

estu?r?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of estu?r?nus

English

Etymology

From salt +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lti

Noun

saltie (plural salties)

1. (Australia, informal) A salt-water crocodile (or estuarine crocodile).
   • 1998, Romulus Whitaker, Zai Whitaker, Crocodile Fever: Wildlife Adventures in New Guinea, Orient Longman, India, page 8,

     ‘Salties’ typically live in and around the coastal mangroves but are not uncommon hundreds of kilometres inland. A saltie grows to around seven metres in length and is the main Asian crocodile responsible for attacks on humans.

   • 2010, Lindsay Marsh, Dangerous Aussie Animals, page 40,

     They like to spend their time in freshwater rivers in coastal waters. Saltwater crocodiles are fiercely territorial and fully mature male salties force younger and smaller salties into the ocean where they have to search for river systems.

   • 2010, Nancy Cushing, Kevin Markwell, Snake-Bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park, page 94,

     It is feared by those who live near it. For its part, the saltie fears nothing — except a larger crocodile.

   • 2011, A.J. Mackinnon, The Well at the World?s End, page 104,

     For their part, the others had been earnestly pointing out that there were in fact two types of crocodiles, saltwater and freshwater, and that only the salties were dangerous.

2. (Canada, US, nautical) An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway.
   • “The season's first ships”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[1], Midwest Weekends, April 16, 2015, retrieved July 11, 2015

     Ah, but when will the first oceangoing boat arrive [in Duluth, Minnesota]? . . . In 2015, the first saltie to arrive was the Malta-flagged Kom, which arrived April 13 with a Bulgarian crew to load durum wheat headed for Italy.

3. The saltwater fluke or dab.

Coordinate terms

• (crocodile): freshie
• (ship): laker

Anagrams

• Elista, ailest, alties, salite, stelai

Latvian

Adjective

saltie

1. nominative plural masculine form of saltais
2. vocative plural masculine form of saltais