saltish
Americanadjective
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They sipped on their saltish Kashmiri pink tea a little longer instead of starting on the buffet their host had set out.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2017
Unlike horses I saw at Waikiki, which shut their eyes and plunged their heads into water up to their ears, in search of a saltish weed which grows in the lagoons.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The water is perfectly clear, has a saltish taste, and at the spring is not unlike weak broth, though it has a disagreeable odor.
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Oliver Optic
Oxide, a compound of oxygen, and a base destitute of acid and saltish properties.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
Middle Miocene.—Sandstone containing quartz, intercalated with marl of a saltish taste.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various
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