salina
noun
a saline marsh, spring, or the like.
salina
1 American
[suh-lahy-nuh]
/ səˈlaɪ nə /
noun
salinas
plural
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a saline marsh, spring, or the like.
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a saltworks.
Salina
2
American
[suh-lahy-nuh]
/ səˈlaɪ nə /
noun
salina
British
/ səˈlaɪnə /
noun
salina
Scientific
/ sə-lī′nə,-lē′- /
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An area of land encrusted with crystalline salt, especially a salt pan or a salt-encrusted playa.
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A body of water, such as a salt marsh, spring, pond, or lake, having a high saline content.
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Etymology
Origin of salina
1690–1700; < Spanish ≪ Latin salīnae saltworks
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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
One day we accompanied a party of the Spaniards in their whale-boat to a salina, or lake from which salt is procured.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
At sunset, the Salina Symphony performs a free concert of patriotic music and popular tunes.
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
“There’s not a reflective surface Maddox passes that he doesn’t like,” Salina notes with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Season 15 contestant Salina EsTitties said many “Drag Race” alumni are not raking it in, especially not after recent economic changes.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
I stood in the August twilight by the railway station in the little frontier town of Salina, where the Union Pacific train had abandoned me to my fate.
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill
"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
The government has farmed the salinas to a private individual in Huacho, who keeps on the spot an overseer with the necessary number of laborers.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
This phenomenon is quite different from that of the salinas, and more extraordinary.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
Soda, in ash of plants, 54; fixed by soils, 58; necessary for plant-growth, 55; nitrate of, 332-351; in salinas, 335; replaces potash, 466.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton
One hundred and forty soldiers perished in this engagement, which received the name of las salinas.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Leigh, Dora
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