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Aquatic ecosystems
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Fishery resources
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Aquiculture
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| TERM | * Lake status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun |
| PLURAL | Lakes ;
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| ETYMOLOGY | Late Old English (denoting a pond or pool), from Old French lac, from Latin lacus ‘basin, pool, lake’. - Borrowing from Anglo-French lac, ‘lake’, with influence of Middle English lake, ‘a narrow stream’; from Classical Latin lacus, ‘lake’ |
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010).
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019).
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| DEFINITION |
a large area of water, usually fresh, that is too small to have tides and that is completely surrounded by land
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| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010).
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019).
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| USAGE EXAMPLE | 1. Law No. 94/01 of 20 January 1994 to lay down forestry, wildlife and fisheries regulations, article 18, paragraph 1 :
" It shall be forbidden for anyone to dump, in national forests as well as in public waterways, in lakes and in the sea, any toxic product or industrial waste likely to destroy or modify animal and plant life. " |
