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- adjective biology Able to
tolerate a high concentration ofsalt in its environment
Etymologies
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From halo- + tolerant
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Examples
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Preservation of foods by salting is an age-old practice; while preventing the growth of pathogenic microbes, it allows the development of harmless, halotolerant ones that produce desirable censorial changes in the substrate (2).
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