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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

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

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 Charles Darwin

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

“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

Salina saw that it was now too late to keep the secret from him; there was no way but to tell him all.

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

These saline incrustations, or salinas, as they are generally called, are chiefly composed of salts of lime, soda, magnesia, alumina, and of boracic acid.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

Hence the Cape de Verd salt is constantly imported, and is mixed with that from these salinas.

From The Voyage of the Beagle 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

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