saline
adjective
of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike.
hypersaline
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a word derived from
saline.
Example Sentences
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The third site was the "wildly weird" Orca Basin, a hypersaline mini-basin nestled into the continental slope.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
The other end of the process involves the discharge of hypersaline brine, or the salty water that is removed from seawater during desalination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
The study also noted a sharp decline in underground water levels around Lake Tuz, a hypersaline lake that straddles the Turkish provinces of Ankara, Konya and Aksaray.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
Although the presence of water could suggest the existence of life akin to the organisms that exist in subglacial lakes in Antarctica, the Martian lakes are believed to be "hypersaline" — that is, unusually salty.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2020
The average depth is probably less than 70 cm. and the waters are hypersaline.
From Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, M?xico by Richard F. Johnston
