Usually means: Tolerates narrow range of salinity.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. stenohaline: Merriam-Webster
  2. stenohaline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stenohaline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stenohaline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stenohaline: Wiktionary
  6. stenohaline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. stenohaline: Dictionary.com
  8. Stenohaline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. stenohaline: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stenohaline: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stenohaline: Medical dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stenohaline)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Tolerant of only a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms

Similar:
euryhaline, oligohaline, eurysaline, mixoeuhaline, stenobathic, osmocompetent, eurohaline, halobiotic, amphihaline, mixohaline, more...

Opposite:
euryhaline, osmoconformer, osmoregulator

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Similar:
euryhaline, oligohaline, eurysaline, mixoeuhaline, stenobathic, osmocompetent, eurohaline, halobiotic, amphihaline, mixohaline, more...

Opposite:
euryhaline, osmoconformer, osmoregulator



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