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ground water

ground water is the alternative form of groundwater.

Meaning of groundwater

Noun

groundwater (countable and uncountable, plural groundwaters)

  1. Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.
    • The pH in water of the hillside soils varied between 3.1 and 6.1 with a mean of 4.2. The pattern of pH variation is complex and does not clearly relate either to cultivation or occupation. The most consistent, though weak, correlation appears to be between higher pH and flushes or bogs, which...1995, Olwyn Owen, Christopher Lowe, Kebister: The Four-thousand-year-old Story, page 45

Forms of ground water

pluralground waters

Questions about ground water

What is ground water the alternative form of?
Ground water is the alternative form of groundwater.

Words near ground water in the dictionary

  1. ground tyrant
  2. ground tyrants
  3. ground up
  4. ground wallah
  5. ground wallahs
  6. ground water
  7. ground waters
  8. ground wire
  9. ground wires
  10. ground zero
  11. ground zeroes

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