Definitions

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  • adjective Very salty.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ salty

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Examples

  • Alberta's frozen lakes don't look much like ancient oceans, however, so Gingras and his colleagues turned to supersalty lagoons in Venezuela.

    Wired Top Stories Daniel Strain 2011

  • Strikingly, they were all arrayed around an underwater lake - a lake on the seafloor made up of supersalty water called brine.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Strikingly, they were all arrayed around an underwater lake - a lake on the seafloor made up of supersalty water called brine.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Strikingly, they were all arrayed around an underwater lake - a lake on the seafloor made up of supersalty water called brine.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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