Usually means: Underground layer holding and transmitting water.
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  1. aquifer: Merriam-Webster
  2. aquifer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aquifer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aquifer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aquifer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aquifer, aquifer: Wordnik
  7. aquifer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aquifer: Wiktionary
  9. aquifer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aquifer: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. aquifer: Dictionary.com
  12. aquifer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Aquifer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. aquifer: Rhymezone
  15. aquifer: FreeDictionary.org
  16. aquifer: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. aquifer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. aquifer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. aquifer: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. aquifer: Encyclopedia

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
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  1. aquifer: Urban Dictionary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. AQUIFER: Power Engineering
  8. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See aquiferous as well.)

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noun:  An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.

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