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
Oxide, a compound of oxygen, and a base destitute of acid and saltish properties.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
Middle Miocene.—Sandstone containing quartz, intercalated with marl of a saltish taste.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various
Brackish, brak′ish, adj. saltish: applied to water mixed with salt or with sea-water.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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.
