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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

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Etymology

Origin of salina

1690–1700; < Spanish ≪ Latin salīnae saltworks

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Example Sentences

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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

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

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

The whole salina is about 2 miles in length, and half a mile wide; but above one half of it its commonly dry.

From A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier

For the nation’s 250th anniversary year, a special addition was the Salina Symphony Youth Choir, elementary and middle schoolers who presented a number called “Thank You, Soldiers.”

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

“The food is excellent — I wish she would franchise it and open one in Nashville,” Salina says of Goop.

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

"I don't know about your being at home!" said Salina, indignantly.

From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

"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

Curiously, we found no adults here, though in March they were numerous in some disused salinas beyond Tangier, but no young ones.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck

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 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 Thomasina Ross

The Indians, when they come from the mountains to convey salt, never take their llamas to the salinas.

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

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