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- noun Abnormally high
salinity .
Etymologies
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hyper- + salinity
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Examples
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Because of the hypersalinity, oysters are not commercially harvested to a large extent, although the region does contain the only strain of high-salinity adapted oysters in North America.
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Disturbance to mangroves in tropical-arid Western Australia: hypersalinity and restricted tidal exchange as factors leading to mortality.
Chapter 8 1990
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