From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishturbidtur‧bid /ˈtɜːbɪd $ ˈtɜːr-/ adjective formal DIRTYLIQUIDturbid water or liquid is dirty and muddy —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” 