hypersaline.

Containing much more dissolved salt than ordinary seawater.

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Words that belong together

• hypersaline lake
• hypersaline brine

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Only a few organisms survived in the hypersaline basin.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.