Phreatic Definition

frē-ătĭk
adjective
Of, having to do with, or being groundwater.
Webster's New World
(geology) Of or pertaining to ground water.
Wiktionary

Origin of Phreatic

  • From Greek phrear phreat- well, spring bhreu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek stem of φρέαρ (phrear, “well, spring")

    From Wiktionary

Phreatic Sentence Examples

  • For example, you can easily see areas where there are vadose canyons or phreatic tubes.

  • At the bottom of the traverse a phreatic maze leads back to the junction.

  • The phreatic passages upstream were also looked at again but with no extra sections to add after the initial 1982 explorations.

  • A steeply ascending phreatic rift was gained heading north east to reach a point some 45m above the start of the climb.

  • However a large, muddy, phreatic tube leads back up out of the chamber.

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Words Starting With

PPHPHR

Words Ending With

CICTIC

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Words Starting With P and Ending With C

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With P8 Letter Words Ending With C