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brackish

English

Etymology

From Scottish brack (from Dutch brak (brackish)) +? -ish.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b?æk??/

Adjective

brackish (comparative more brackish, superlative most brackish)

  1. (of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
    • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
      ...by a low cour?e and too long ?porting with the briny Ocean it ta?ts bracki?h and in?alubrious...
    • 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4.
      On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Random House.
      The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.
  2. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. Repulsive (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

  • brackishly
  • brackishness

Translations

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saline

English

Etymology

From Middle French salin, from Latin sal (salt).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?se?.la?n/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?se?li?n/

Adjective

saline (comparative more saline, superlative most saline)

  1. Containing salt; salty.
  2. Resembling salt.
    a saline taste

Derived terms

  • Saline County

Translations

Noun

saline (countable and uncountable, plural salines)

  1. Water containing dissolved salt.
  2. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

Synonyms

  • (water containing dissolved salt): saline solution

Derived terms

  • normal saline

Translations

Anagrams

  • A-lines, Selina, aliens, alines, laines, lianes, lisena, silane, slaine

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.lin/

Adjective

saline

  1. feminine singular of salin

Italian

Adjective

saline

  1. feminine plural of salino

Noun

saline f pl

  1. plural of salina

Anagrams

  • lesina

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