mesosaline
adjEtymology From meso- + saline.
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Of a body of water, of intermediate salinity.
- Of wetlands we studied in summer 1992 (Wollheim and Lovvoru 1995, 1996), the oligosaline wetlands have had much more stable salinities over the last five years than have the mesosaline wetlands.1999, Darold P. Batzer, Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America:
- Coordinate terms
- oligosaline