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brininess

/brahy-nee/US // ˈbraɪ ni //UK // (ˈbraɪnɪ) //

卤味,卤水,卤素,卤水味

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    brin·i·er, brin·i·est.

    • : of or like brine; salty: a briny taste.

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Examples

  • Luckily, briny, toothsome kelp—hopefully included in a CSA near you—can depend on its good taste.

  • So are the briny liquids in a bottle of olives or cocktail onions.

  • The thick serving of bird itself was juicy and briny, and the layer of crinkle-cut pickle — de rigueur in the current craze for “Southern style” sandos — offered a familiar, but still pleasant, pucker.

  • An iced platter of Savage Blonde oysters from Prince Edward Island, gently crisp and nicely briny, puts us in vacation mode.

  • Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, are other prime candidates with expected briny habitats.

  • This cider is bone dry and has a really great olive & briny quality that makes it a killer food pairing cider.

  • The river smelled faintly briny as waves brushed up against the pier.

  • Since the stone crab is capable of regrowing its claws every 18 months, this break prevents overfishing of the briny delicacy.

  • We sampled dozens of olive varieties, ranging from light and briny to cured and herbaceous.

  • Her fat red cheeks would quiver with emotion, and be wet with briny tears, over the sorrows of Mr. Trollope's heroines.

  • She shook off her briny blindness, and settled to the full sweep of the arms, quite silent now.

  • And with it came a breeze, a moving, briny, bay-cooled breeze that stirred the grass with a whisper of night.

  • "Ta-ta," McGuffey cried in his tantalizing falsetto voice, and followed his leader into the briny deep.

  • The settlers live mostly on the bay, where, from constant evaporation, the waters are more briny than the Atlantic.