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1. (adj.) briny
of or like brine; salty.
2. (n.) briny
the ocean.
Etymology: (1825–35; brine+-y2)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) main, briny
any very large body of (salt) water
2. (adj) brackish, briny
slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
"a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep"
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1. (adj) briny
of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood
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Sense: (of water) very salty.
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 Afrikaans: sout, siltig |
 Arabic: مالِح، خَلّي |
 Bulgarian: саламура |
 Brazilian: salgado |
 Czech: slaný |
 German: salzig |
 Danish: salt |
 Greek: αλμυρός (για νερό) |
 Spanish: salado, salobre |
 Estonian: tulisoolane |
 Farsi: خیلی شور |
 Finnish: suolainen |
 French: salé, saumâtre |
 Hebrew: מְלוּחִים |
 Hindi: नमकीन |
 Croatian: slano |
 Hungarian: sós (vizű) |
 Indonesian: asin sekali |
 Icelandic: saltur |
 Italian: salato |
 Japanese: 塩辛い |
 Korean: 소금물의 |
 Lithuanian: sūrus |
 Latvian: (parūdeni) ļoti sāļš |
 Malay: air masin |
 Dutch: zout |
 Norwegian: salt |
 Polish: solankowy |
 Persian: خیلی شور |
 Pashto: ډیر تریو، ډیر تروش |
 Portuguese: salgado |
 Romanian: (foarte) sărat |
 Russian: солёный |
 Slovak: slaný |
 Slovenian: slan |
 Serbian: veoma slan |
 Swedish: salt |
 Thai: (น้ำ) เค็มมาก |
 Turkish: çok tuzlu |
 Taiwanese: 很鹹的 |
 Ukrainian: солоний, солонуватий |
 Urdu: بہت نمکین |
 Vietnamese: mặn |
 Chinese: 很咸的 |
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