Meaning & use
hypersaline
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Having a salt concentration higher than that of normal seawater.
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The Dead Sea is a hypersaline lake where few organisms can survive.
Researchers study hypersaline ponds because they host unusual salt-tolerant microbes.
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Hypersaline environments, such as salt flats and certain lakes, support only specially adapted organisms called halophiles.
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