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Definition of Hypersaline
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hypersaline
1. Marked by increased salt in a saline solution. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypersaline
Literary usage of Hypersaline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classification of Wetlands & Deepwater Habitats of the U. S. by Lewis M. Cowardin (1979)
"... Permanent-open- water Fen (alkaline bog) or hypersaline water) Permanently
flooded (with mixo- haline water) Saturated APPROXIMATE SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCES ..."
2. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"... 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands Anoxie hypersaline brines in the Bannock
Basin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea, show extreme physico-chemical properties. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"This is a hypersaline lagoon, where there are no grazers or burrowers to limit
stromatolite growth and preservation. There are many stromatolitic sequences ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1908)
"... peaceful Arcachon with its oyster lagoon, and hypersaline sea where thousands
of bathers learn to swim in the summer j and due south-east, ..."
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