artesian well

English

artesian well (plural artesian wells)

An aquifer in which water rises to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.
Synonym: artesian spring
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
  “When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”
A bore-hole in an artesian basin.

aquifer

borehole

Chinese:
Mandarin: 自流井 (zh) (zìliújǐng)
Finnish: arteesinen porakaivo
French: puits artésien (fr) m
German: artesischer Brunnen m
Greek: αρτεσιανό φρέαρ n (artesianó fréar)
Japanese: 掘り抜き井戸 (ほりぬきいど, horinuki ido)
Polish: studnia artezyjska (pl) f
Portuguese: poço artesiano m
Russian: артезиа́нский коло́дец (ru) m (artɛziánskij kolódec), артезиа́нская сква́жина f (artɛziánskaja skvážina)

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