saltish

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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

First, as to the alimentary apparatus: Taste is very commonly altered in disease, being sour in indigestion, bitter in disorders of the liver, saltish in h�moptysis, rotten in gangrene of the lungs.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Middle Miocene.—Sandstone containing quartz, intercalated with marl of a saltish taste.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various

The sweat is a turbid, saltish fluid with a feeble but characteristic odor due to certain volatile fatty acids.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

Salsaginous, sal-saj′i-nus, adj. saltish: growing in brackish places.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various