mesosaline

meso- +‎ saline

mesosaline (not comparable)

1. Of a body of water, of intermediate salinity.
   • 1999, Darold P. Batzer, Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America:

     Of wetlands we studied in summer 1992 (Wollheim and Lovvoru 1995, 1996), the oligosaline wetlands have had much more stable salinities over the last five years than have the mesosaline wetlands.

• oligosaline