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oligosaline

oligosaline adjective: of a body of water, of low salinity.

Adjective

oligosaline (not comparable)

  1. Of a body of water, of low salinity.
    • Of wetlands we studied in summer 1992 (Wollheim and Lovvoru 1995, 1996), the oligosaline wetlands have had much more stable salinities over the last five years than have the mesosaline wetlands.1999, Darold P. Batzer, Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America

Origin of oligosaline

From oligo- + saline.

Questions about oligosaline

What does oligosaline mean?
Oligosaline means of a body of water, of low salinity.
What part of speech is oligosaline?
Oligosaline is an adjective.

Words near oligosaline in the dictionary

  1. oligosaccharidic
  2. oligosaccharidosis
  3. oligosaccharyl
  4. oligosaccharyltransferase
  5. oligosaccharyltransferases
  6. oligosaline
  7. oligosaprobe
  8. oligosaprobes
  9. oligosaprobic
  10. oligosarcosine
  11. oligosecretory

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