saltish
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They sipped on their saltish Kashmiri pink tea a little longer instead of starting on the buffet their host had set out.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2017
Salsaginous, sal-saj′i-nus, adj. saltish: growing in brackish places.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Wild greens were plentiful; some resembled those at the Cape of Good Hope, "and may be used in place of wormwood;" others were long and saltish, and like sea parsley.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Flinders, Matthew
Those which were overturned, fell in pieces immediately upon my touching them; and the filaments which remained under the bark, were covered over with a saltish powder, as clear as crystal.
Whether all Fruits, Herbs, Earth, Fountains, are naturally saltish in the Isle of Cyprus?
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
