Meaning & use
Euryhaline
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Able to tolerate a wide range of salinities, used to describe certain aquatic organisms.
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Salmon are euryhaline fish, moving between freshwater rivers and the salty ocean during their life cycle.
Euryhaline crabs can survive in both brackish estuaries and full-strength seawater.
A note on using this word
Built from Greek 'eurys' (wide) and 'halinos' (salty), directly paralleling its opposite, 'stenohaline,' meaning tolerant of only a narrow salinity range.
Words with an opposite meaning
stenohaline
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