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Salinity

Salineness.

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Taste 76% connected

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

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Saline 74% connected

Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Saline 74% connected

Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

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Salty 74% connected

Somewhat salt; saltish.

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Salty 74% connected

Somewhat salt; saltish.

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Synonym 2

Brininess 92% connected

The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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salt 92% connected

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; aft…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Detection noun · 78% connection

the detection that a signal is being received

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Receptor noun · 78% connection

an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation

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Sense organ noun · 78% connection

an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation

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Sensory receptor noun · 78% connection

an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation

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Baroreceptor noun · 77% connection

a sensory receptor that responds to pressure

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Chemoreceptor noun · 77% connection

a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli

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Ear noun · 77% connection

the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium

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Enteroceptor noun · 77% connection

any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body

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Exteroceptor noun · 77% connection

any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body

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Eye noun · 77% connection

the organ of sight

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Inner ear noun · 77% connection

a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium

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Internal ear noun · 77% connection

a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium

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Interoceptor noun · 77% connection

any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body

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Labyrinth noun · 77% connection

a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium

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Lateral line noun · 77% connection

sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water

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Lateral line organ noun · 77% connection

sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water

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Oculus noun · 77% connection

the organ of sight

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Salineness noun · 72% connection

The quality or state of being salt; saltness.

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