salty

The startup essentially tailors microbes using a technique known as adaptive laboratory evolution—gradually exposing the organisms to conditions such as high arsenic or salty water.

Enceladus is a geologically active world with a global, salty ocean hidden beneath its icy surface.

As we walk the long beach on toasty sand toward the lockers, the sun dries us and leaves us salty.

Eventually, though, she detected the faint sound of ocean waves, and she caught a whiff of salty air, and then she turned a corner and stepped into bright daylight.

Indeed, Atencio’s words — some of those quoted in the book, such as “Avast there! Ye come seeking adventure and salty old pirates, aye?” — have become shorthand for how to speak like a pirate.