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WELL WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well water mean? 

WELL WATER (noun)
  The noun WELL WATER has 1 sense:

1. underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocksplay

  Familiarity information: WELL WATER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WELL WATER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

ground water; spring water; well water

Hypernyms ("well water" is a kind of...):

H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)


 Context examples 


C. acetobutylicum is found commonly in soil, lake sediment, well water, and bovine, canine, and human feces.

(Clostridium acetobutylicum, NCI Thesaurus)



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