salinize

verb
/ˈsælɪnaɪz/UK

Etymology

From saline + -ize.

  1. derived from sal
  2. derived from salin
  3. derived from salīna
  4. inherited from salyne
  5. suffixed as salinize — “saline + ize

Definitions

  1. to become or render salty

    • The success of Tamarix relates to its ability, as a phreatophyte, to grow rapidly under mesophytic riparian conditions, but then, as a deciduous salt-pumping shrub, to salinize the floodplain ecosystems which it invades.

The neighborhood

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