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    turbid

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++tur·bid /ˈtɜːbɪd $ ˈtɜːr-/ adjective formal  DIRTYLIQUIDturbid water or liquid is dirty and muddy 〔水或液体〕混浊的，不清的 —turbidity /tɜːˈbidəti $ tɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]
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    turbid• Some tropical rivers are covered with floating vegetation, and so full of rotting leaves that they are black and turbid.• These chylomicrons enter the blood through the lymphatic system where they impart a turbid appearance to serum.• Eight hundred miles of the Missouri would be transformed into a chain of huge, turbid reservoirs.• In turbid water the depth to which corals grow will be more limited than in clear water.• My few days were intermediate - cloudy, rough, with the reef and turbid water yet to fully recover.• Brown barges puttered slowly through the turbid water.    Origin turbid (1600-1700) Latin turbidus, from turba “confusion, crowd”
    tur·bid adjectiveChineseSyllable
    turbid Corpus dirty and water or liquid is muddy


    turbid
    tur‧bid /ˈtɜːbɪd $ ˈtɜːr-/ adjective formal
     Date: 1600-1700
     Language: Latin
     Origin: turbidus, from turba 'confusion, crowd'
    turbid water or liquid is dirty and muddy
    —turbidity /tɜːˈbidəti, tɜːˈbidɪti $ tɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]


    tur·bidBrE /ˈtɜːbɪd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtɜːrbɪd/ 🔊 adjective (formal) (of liquid 液体) full of mud, dirt, etc. so that you cannot see through it 浑浊的；污浊不清的 SYN muddy ▸ tur·bid·ity BrE /tɜːˈbɪdəti/ 🔊NAmE /tɜːrˈbɪdəti/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]