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  • noun Abnormally high salinity.

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hyper- +‎ salinity

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Examples

  • 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.

    Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

  • 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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