1928 K. E. Carpenter Life Inland Waters ix. 228 Other halobionts are: all known species of Ephydra (Diptera)..and several species of Ochthebius, Philydrus, and Paracymus (Coleoptera).

1937 W. C. Allee & K. P. Schmidt Hesse's Ecol. Animal Geogr. xix. 370 ‘Halobionts’ are limited to water of rather high salt content, and are more or less salt-tolerant stenohaline forms.

1928 K. E. Carpenter Life Inland Waters ix. 228 Above this concentration, species rapidly diminish in numbers, and above 10 per cent. are only found the true ‘halobiontic’ forms, which rarely, or never, occur in waters other than saline.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Halobiotic.

1927 R. S. Lull Org. Evol. (rev. ed.) v. 70 Halobiotic or Marine Realm.

1902 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 119 Reference may be made to some recent work of v. Baeyer and Villiger on dibenzylidene acetone and triphenyl methane. They refer to the constitution of colourless substances which form highly coloured salts, and term the phenomenon halochromism.

1944 Hackh's Chem. Dict. (ed. 3) 395/1 Halochromism, the formation of colored salts from colorless organic bases by the addition of acids.

1952 K. Venkataraman Chem. Synthetic Dyes I. viii. 326 In the phenomenon of halochromism, the neutral organic compounds, which become brilliantly colored on the addition of hydrogen ion, are colored to about the same depth and intensity by the addition of neutral substances such as boron trichloride or stannic chloride instead of hydrogen ion.

1898 J. E. S. Moore in Proc. Royal Soc. 62 453 They probably belong to the same quasi-marine, or what I shall in future call the Halolimnic group.

1903 J. E. S. Moore Tanganyika Probl. vii. 141 The animals forming the invertebrate section of this peculiar group have an obviously marine aspect, and on that account I have spoken of them elsewhere as forming a halolimnic series in Lake Tanganyika—that is to say, they form a group of animals which, although living in a fresh~water lake, have at the same time the characters of animals that are typical of the sea.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 5/2 The shells of the halolimnic gasteropods.

1922 Nature 5 Jan. 28/1 The halolimnic forms..exhibit a marine-like appearance.

1938 U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 1169 Halomorphic soils, a suborder of intrazonal soils, the properties of which are determined by the presence of neutral or alkali salts, or both.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 273/1 Other desert soils are intra~zonal..and either contain appreciable amounts of calcium carbonate (the pedocal soils) or have relatively high concentrations of other soluble salts (the halomorphic soils).

1879 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. 1560/1 Halophyte, a plant found in salt marshes.

1894 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants I. 74 Plants which only flourish abundantly on soils rich in alkaline salts are called halophytes. The same name has also been applied to plants which only thrive in sea-water.

1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. 90 Halophytes can thrive on ordinary soil..without any addition of common salt.

1909 E. Warming et al. Oecol. Plants liv. 219 A halophyte..is one form of xerophyte.

1966 New Scientist 2 June 575/1 Because of the removal of water by transpiration or in the harvested crop, the concentration of salts in the system will rise so that even halophytes will suffer.

1895 G. Henslow Origin Floral Struct. 83 Halophytic plants, and others yielding ethereal oils.

1950 Engineering 26 Mar. 610/3 While..salt..is being washed out of the soil..the vegetation will still be halophytic.

1909 E. Warming et al. Oecol. Plants xxxviii. 160 The plankton of salt water may be subdivided into neritic and oceanic halo~plankton.

1927 R. S. Lull Org. Evol. (rev. ed.) iii. 43 Marine or halo-plankton.

1929 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. iv. 74 Hydroseres in saline areas are distinguished as (salt) haloseres.

1930 Jrnl. Ecol. 18 201 Halosere, the sere commencing in saline water or upon saline soil.

1930 Jrnl. Ecol. 18 229 (heading) Communities developing within the halosere.

1964 K. A. Kershaw Quantitative & Dynamic Ecol. iii. 39 Clements similarly termed the stages of salt marsh succession a halosere.

1922 Halowax (Condensite Co. of America) 3 Halowax for impregnating paper round electrical condensers.

1922 Halowax (Condensite Co. of America) 4 Halowax is a trade name for chloro-naphthalene substitution products, i.e., products in which chlorine atoms are substituted for those of hydrogen in the naphthalene.

1928 Daily Express 10 Jan. 3/7 The..Anti-Knock Compound..is a liquid consisting of tetra-ethyl lead, ethylene dibromide, halowax oil and red aniline dye.

1947 J. C. Rich Materials & Methods Sculpt. vi. 157 Halowax is a synthetic wax with a high melting point. It is a strong and hard material and imparts a milky opaqueness to a cool wax formula.

1963 R. F. Webb Motorists' Dict. 121 Halowax, a type of oil, blended with a tetra-ethyl lead compound used to lubricate the working parts of some mechanical superchargers.