saliferous
[suh-lif-er-uh s]
adjective
containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
Origin of saliferous
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Related Words for saliferous
saline, alkaline, pungent, briny, sour, salted, acrid, brackish, salt, saliferous, saltishExamples from the Web for saliferous
Historical Examples of saliferous
There is little to be said of the animals which belong to the Saliferous period.
The World Before the DelugeLouis Figuier
It overlies a bed of saliferous sandstone which has been worked for salt.
The Andes and the AmazonJames Orton
In Cheshire and Lancashire the gypseous and saliferous red shales and loams of the Trias are between 1000 and 1500 feet thick.
A Manual of Elementary GeologyCharles Lyell.
saliferous
adjective
Word Origin for saliferous
C19: from Latin sal salt + ferre to bear
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