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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of tolerating a wide range of salt water concentrations. Used of an aquatic organism.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a wide range or capacity as to saltness; able to endure great changes in the salinity of water.

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  • adjective Able to tolerate various saltwater concentrations.

Etymologies

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From eury- +‎ haline

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Examples

  • There are likely to be shifts in species composition to more euryhaline and anadromous species.

    Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009

  • Increased river discharge could possibly create estuarine areas, providing new habitat opportunities for euryhaline species.

    Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009

  • While the warmer-water percid and cyprinid species are restricted to the southwest and unlikely to extend their range to the north (unless moved by humans) because of dispersal barriers [18], the euryhaline salmonids are able to move from estuary to estuary as conditions allow.

    Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009

  • In estuarine habitats, there are likely to be shifts in species composition to more euryhaline and anadromous species (e.g., fourhorn sculpin – Myoxocephalus quadricornis, ninespine stickleback – Pungitius pungitius, threespine stickleback – Gasterosteus aculeatus, Arctic flounder – Pleuronectes glacialis, salmonines, and coregonines).

    Changes in aquatic biota and ecosystem structure and function in the Arctic 2009

  • A list of freshwater, anadromous, and euryhaline fishes of California.

    Biological diversity in the California Floristic Province 2008

  • The alternative, that tetrapods radiated independently from lobe-fins that had originally been euryhaline [salt-tolerating] and subsequently lost their salt tolerance, seems even more unlikely and countered by the detailed similarities that are found in the tetrapods now known from over the world.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • The alternative, that tetrapods radiated independently from lobe-fins that had originally been euryhaline [salt-tolerating] and subsequently lost their salt tolerance, seems even more unlikely and countered by the detailed similarities that are found in the tetrapods now known from over the world.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

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