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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 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

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

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

C. salina often covers our salt marshes with brilliant patches of orange.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

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

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

For nine hours we held on our way, starting with noisy shouts the fierce rhinoceros, the timid quagga and the herds of antelopes, which crowd the jungles of this broad Salina.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler

"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

This salt is evaporated in the salinas of Campeche, taken by water to Tuzpan, and then brought up the country on mules' backs—each beast carrying 300 lbs.

From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Tylor, Edward Burnett

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 Darwin, Charles