"oligosaline" meaning in English

See oligosaline in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From oligo- + saline. Etymology templates: {{af|en|oligo-|saline}} oligo- + saline Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} oligosaline (not comparable)
  1. Of a body of water, of low salinity. Tags: not-comparable Coordinate_terms: mesosaline
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "oligo-",
        "3": "saline"
      },
      "expansion": "oligo- + saline",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From oligo- + saline.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "oligosaline (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with oligo-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "mesosaline"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Darold P. Batzer, Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a body of water, of low salinity."
      ],
      "id": "en-oligosaline-en-adj-lAcWlg9D",
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "salinity",
          "salinity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oligosaline"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "mesosaline"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "oligo-",
        "3": "saline"
      },
      "expansion": "oligo- + saline",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From oligo- + saline.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "oligosaline (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with oligo-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Darold P. Batzer, Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a body of water, of low salinity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "salinity",
          "salinity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oligosaline"
}

Download raw JSONL data for oligosaline meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.