Scientists believe water on Mars would be briny because past landers and rovers, as well as Martian meteorites, have shown that the planet's surface is salty.
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Briny
//ˈbɹaɪni//
Synonyms for "briny" (12 found)
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Translations
19 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- море́ adj (salty)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鹹 /咸 adj (salty)
Finnish
1 entries- suolainen adj (salty)
French
1 entries- saumâtre adj (salty)
German
1 entries- salzig adj (salty)
Greek
1 entries- αλμυρός adj (salty)
Hungarian
1 entries- sós adj (salty)
Italian
1 entries- salmastro adj (salty)
Manx
1 entries- sailjey adj (salty)
Portuguese
3 entries- salgado adj (salty)
- salobre adj (salty)
- salobro adj (salty)
Spanish
3 entries- salado adj (salty)
- salitroso adj (salty)
- salífero adj (salty)
Tagalog
1 entries- matabsing adj (salty)
Turkish
1 entries- tuzlu adj (salty)
Volapük
2 entries- salodik adj (salty)
- salöfik adj (salty)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
on the briny deep
Source: wiktionary
[Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable.
Source: wiktionary
I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny / And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny
Source: wiktionary
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