What does the term brackish mean.?

Question

What does the term brackish mean.?

Answer 1

It refers to salt content

Answer 2

If it is being used about water, it is dirty and stagnant.

Answer 3

I think it's how much salinity is in water.

Answer 4

Brackish water is usually the water that contains (more or less) half fresh water and half salt water.

Answer 5

Containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water. Brackish water is somewhat salty.

Answer 6

It's where a river empties into the ocean - for some distance up the river there is some salt intrusion and vice versa for some distance out into the ocean - brackish water is a mixture of fresh and salt.

I've always thought it sounded like a dirty or ugly word, like you wouldn't want to be "brackish", but in fact there's nothing wrong with such water and some things thrive there that wouldn't anywhere else.