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  • a portmanteau or combination of words brine and icicle. So, in a sense, it's a salt water icicle..

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinicle

    November 24, 2011

  • A brine icicle formed beneath sea ice when a flow of extremely cold, saline water is introduced to an area of ocean water. From brine + icicle.

    August 30, 2012