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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 rocks
Familiarity information: WELL WATER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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