Halo-Salt Words: “euhalline” to “stenohaline”halio-, hali- (Greek > Latin: sea or ocean; salt)Don’t confuse this halo-, hal- with another hal- [Latin] that means “breathe, breath”. euhaline:
A reference to waters containing between 30 and 40 parts per thousand of dissolved salts; that is, in most cases, normal sea water.
euryhaline:
Able to tolerate a wide range of salinity; said of organisms capable of withstanding widely varying concentrations of salt in the environment.
halic:
Pertaining to saline conditions.
halicole:
A reference to a plant living in a habitat with high salt content.
halicolous:
1. Living in haloid soils having a crystalloid content between 0.5 and 2 parts per thousand of salt content.
2. Used in reference to a plant living in a habitat with a high salt content. halide:
A compound containing halogen (i.e., bromine, chlorine, fluorine, or iodine) combined with a metal or some other radical.
haligraphy:
A treatise or dissertation on the nature and quality of salts.
halimetry, halimetric:
The measurement of the amount of saline matter in a solution.
haline:
An application either to the sea or to salt.
halinous:
Containing or consisting of salt; saline.
haliography:
A description of the sea.
haliphagia:
The ingestion of an abnormally large amount of salts; especially, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and the salts of calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
haliplankton:
Marine or inland saltwater planktonic organisms.
halisteresis:
Osteomalacia; a loss or lack of lime salts (calcium) in bone; halisteretic.
halite:
Native salt; sodium chloride.
halobiont, halobiontic:
A marine organism or an organism that lives in a saline habitat.
halobios:
The total life of the sea; that part of the Earth’s surface occupied by marine organisms; halibios
halobiotic:
A reference to life in the sea.
halocline:
1. A vertical gradient in the saltiness of the ocean.
2. A salinity discontinuity; a zone of marked salinity gradient. halodermia:
Any skin eruption caused by a halide.
haloduric:
Capable of existing in a medium containing a high concentration of salt.
halogen:
1. Any of the five electronegative diatomic elements, fluorine, chlorine, iodine, bromine, or astatine; used to describe lamps or other light sources containing a filament heated by a halogen. So called because the elements readily form salts when combined with metals.
2. An element of a closely related chemical family, all of which form similar (saltlike) compounds in combination with sodium and most other metals. haloid:
Saltlike; derived from or resembling a halogen.
halokinesis:
In geology, the study of the structure and processes involved in the formation of salt domes; salt tectonics.
halolimnetic:
Pertaining to salt lakes.
halolimnic:
Designating marine organisms so modified that they can live in fresh water.
halology:
A branch of chemistry that deals with salts.
halomancy:
Divination, or fortune telling, with the use of salt.
halometer:
An instrument for measuring the external form, angles, and planes of salt crystals.
halometry:
Measuring the external forms of salt crystals.
halomorphic:
1. Containing, or developed under the influence of, large quantities of salts other than calcium carbonate.
2. A description of an intrazonal soil having an accumulation of salts. halopexia:
The retention of salt by the body.
halophile, halophil:
1. A microorganism requiring a high concentration of salt for optimal growth.
2. Any life form that thrives in saline environments. halophilic:
A reference to or characterized by an affinity for salt; applied to microorganisms that require a high concentration of salt for optimal growth.
halophilous:
Existing in saline habitats; such as, plants that thrive in salty soil; halophilic, halophily.
halophobe:
Any creature that is intolerant of saline life.
halophobic:
Intolerant of saline habitats.
halophreatophyte:
A plant utilizing saline ground water.
halophyte:
A plant living in saline conditions; for example, a plant tolerating or thriving in an alkaline soil rich in sodium and calcium salts; halophytic.
haloplankton:
Marine or inland salt-water plankton.
halosphere:
Saltwater areas as a whole; the marine portion of an environment.
halosere:
An ecological succession commencing in a saline habitat.
halotechny:
That branch of chemistry that deals with salts.
halotolerant:
Tolerating, although not necessarily preferring, a saline environment; haloxene.
haloumi:
A salty white Greek cheese with a tough rubbery texture that is usually grilled until a crust has formed on both sides and eaten hot.
halozemia:
The loss of salt by the body.
holeuryhaline:
A reference to organisms that freely inhabit fresh water, sea water, and brackish water.
hyperhaline:
Said of water that contains more than 40 parts per thousand of dissolved salts.
mesohaline:
Pertaining to brackish water having a salinity between three and 10 parts per thousand or sea water having a salinity between 30 and 34 parts per thousand.
mixoeuhaline:
A reference to estuarine waters (wide mouth of a river that flows into the sea) that contain more than 30 parts per thousand of dissolved salts but less than the concentration of the adjacent seas.
mixohaline:
A reference to any body of water that contains anywhere from 0.5 to 30 parts per thousand dissolved salts.
mixomesohaline:
Said of brackish water containing from 5 to 18 parts per thousand dissolved salts.
mixooligohaline:
An application to brackish waters containing from 0.5 to 5 parts per thousand dissolved salts.
mixopolyhaline:
A reference to brackish water containing from 18 to 30 parts per million dissolved salts.
oligohalabous:
A reference to planktonic organisms living in sea water of less than five parts per thousand salinity.
oligohaline:
1. Characterized by salinity in the range immediately above that of “fresh” water.
2. A reference to organisms that are tolerant of only a moderate range of salinities. 3. Brackish water that has a salinity between 0.5 and 3.0 parts per thousand, or sea water having a salinity between 17 and 30 parts per thousand. polyhaline:
Pertaining to brackish water having a salinity between 10 and 17 parts per thousand; or to sea water having a salinity greater than 34 parts per thousand.
polyhalophilic:
Thriving in a wide range of salinities; polyhalophile, polyhalophily.
polystenohaline:
Organisms that only inhabit oceanic waters of relatively constant high salinity.
stenohaline:
A reference to organisms that are capable of tolerating only slight variations in salt concentrations, but it also applies to those capable of tolerating only low concentrations.
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