a stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef
(由沙坝、珊瑚礁与海隔开的)潟湖。
the enclosed water of an atoll
环礁潟湖。
〈北美,澳/新西兰〉 (大湖或河边的)小淡水湖。
an artificial pool for the treatment of effluent or to accommodate an overspill from surface drains during heavy rain
废水处理池;(大雨时用的)积水池。
"early 17th cent.: from Italian and Spanish