saline
adjective
of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike.
subsaline
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a word derived from
saline.
Example Sentences
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The same may be said of the plants of the intervening great Plains, except that northward in the subsaline vegetation there are some close alliances with the flora of the steppes of Siberia.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray
It is found on the borders of salt marshes and in subsaline soils in the interior, as well as upon high hills in stony soils.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Also in subsaline soil, Minn. to Neb., and westward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
