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tanque escavado

English translation: excavated tank

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Portuguese term or phrase:tanque escavado
English translation:excavated tank
Entered by: Ana Vozone

09:35 Nov 10, 2014
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Fisheries / vet/fish
Portuguese term or phrase: tanque escavado
se os peixes demorarem para consumir a ração fornecida no tanque (seja ele tanque rede ou escavado)....
milena mignossi ferreira
Brazil
Local time: 11:17
excavated tank
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Ana Vozone
Local time: 15:17
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4 +2excavated tank
Ana Vozone
4excavated ponds
Nick Taylor


  

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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
excavated tank


Explanation:
Sugestão

Example sentence(s):
  • Simultaneously, a semi-intensive system using a low fish stocking density of 1 fish/m2 in an excavated tank of 250 m2 was also examined.
  • In some tanks and Ooranis desilted under the tank rehabilitation programme, the excavated tank silt was applied to their agricultural lands, thereby improving the texture and fertility status of the soils.

    Reference: http://portal.unesco.org/geography/fr/files/6192/11690988831...
Ana Vozone
Local time: 15:17
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti
9 mins
  -> Obrigada, Claúdio!
agree  Joao Marcelo Trovao
1 hr
  -> Obrigada, João Marcelo!
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
excavated ponds


Explanation:
excavated ponds - Groundwater sometimes is used where ponds are dug into the existing water table.


    https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/AS/AS-457.html
Nick Taylor
Local time: 15:17
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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