Aquifer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An underground bed or layer of earth, gravel, or porous stone that yields water.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. an underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc.. The water contained in an aquifer may be of great age, and in such cases is sometimes called fossil water.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In geology, a water-bearing bed or stratum, necessarily of some open-textured rock.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
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