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• salina
  salina

  noun

  a saline marsh, spring, or the like.
• Salina
  Salina

  noun

  a city in central Kansas.

salina

¹ American  

[suh-lahy-nuh] / səˈlaɪ nə /

noun

• salinas
  plural

1. a saline marsh, spring, or the like.

2. a saltworks.

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Salina ² American  

[suh-lahy-nuh] / səˈlaɪ nə /

noun

1. a city in central Kansas.

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salina British  

/ səˈlaɪnə /

noun

1. a salt marsh, lake, or spring

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salina Scientific  

/ sə-lī′nə,-lē′- /

1. An area of land encrusted with crystalline salt, especially a salt pan or a salt-encrusted playa.

2. A body of water, such as a salt marsh, spring, pond, or lake, having a high saline content.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• salinas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of salina

1690–1700; < Spanish ≪ Latin salīnae saltworks

Example Sentences

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But local journalist Mustafa Canka, who has tracked the project for years, said previous estimates put the cost of restarting the salt industry and preserving the salina at almost five times the earmarked amount.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

But experts warn the sprawling salt flats of Montenegro's Ulcinj salina, a vital stop-off for migrating flamingos, pelicans and other species, is fading fast.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

According to experts, the salina hosts more than one percent of the global populations of at least seven bird species.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

The lagoons are home to a variety of microorganisms, including Dunaliella salina, an alga responsible for the red hue.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

Thence crossing the broad Wady el-Wijh, they reached, after a mile's ride, Wady Melláhah, or "the salina."

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sixty-five local musicians in Salina packed their instruments and in a carpool caravan drove 30 minutes east, to the town of Abilene, population 6,500.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Spruds formally resigned on Monday and Salina proposed a military officer as his replacement but the Progressive party rejected him.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

“He just graduated from Mississippi State,” Salina says, “so we put him to work.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

The Interoceanic train, which connects the Pacific port of Salina Cruz with Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf Coast, had two locomotives and four passenger cars, the navy said.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

Farther on we saw a small lake called Salt Lake, which is in the midst of a forest, and has on its banks three picturesquely situated towns, Liverpool, Salina, and Syracuse.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield

"The crystallisation basins are covered by grass and sheath and so on. This is not the landscape that usually salinas are," she said, explaining the changes to the area that saltwork pumping created.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

El Zagal relinquished his right to one-half of the salinas or salt-pits of Malaha in favor of his brother-in-law, Cid Hiaya.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving

The salinas occur at different elevations above the sea; they are often several leagues in diameter; they are generally very shallow, but there is a deep one in a quartz-rock formation near C. Blanco.

From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

The season for working the salinas forms the harvest of Patagones; for on it the prosperity of the place depends.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

At the mouth of the Pasamayo, on the north bank, there are some salinas, which, however, are far more inconsiderable than those of Huacho.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross