oligosaline
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editoligosaline (not comparable)
- Of a body of water, of low salinity.
- 1999, Darold P. Batzer, Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America:
- 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.