hypersaline

Adjective

Meaning

hypersaline (not comparable)

Having an abnormally high salinity

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With a salt production of 0.2 million tonnes per annum, it is also a hypersaline ecosystem which provides an opportunity for microbial ecologists to understand organisms that thrive in such concentrations. Source: Internet

Some hypersaline lakes are a habitat to numerous families of halophiles. Source: Internet

Ollivier, B., Caumette, P., Garcia, J-L. and Mah, R. (1994) Anaerobic bacteria from hypersaline environments. Source: Internet

Through picking up possible signatures of highly concentrated salts, the paper suggests that Ultimi Scopuli’s subglacial waters are made of perchlorate brinesa hypersaline solution. Source: Internet

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