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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aquifer /ˈakwɪfə/

▶noun a body of permeable rock able to hold or transmit water.

– origin early 20th cent.: from L. aqui- (from aqua ‘water’) + -fer ‘bearing’.

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