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Briny

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or resembling brine; salty.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty

n. The sea

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to brine; of the nature of or affected by brine; salt; salty: as, a briny taste; the briny flood; briny tears.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any very large body of (salt) water

adj. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)

Word Usage

"Elsewhere in the issue we visit Washington's spectacular South Puget Sound, a kind of briny Burgundy where every cove and waterway seems to grow its own distinctive shellfish -- each with its own connoisseur following."

Equivalent

salty

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

water body of water

Variant

brinier briniest

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

salt sal

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

salty sulfurous musky yeasty lemony soapy loamy brackish fetid acrid