"brackish" in the adjective sense
1. brackish
distasteful and unpleasant spoiled by mixture
"a thin brackish gruel"
2. brackish, briny
slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water
"a brackish lagoon"
"the briny deep"
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