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
One might say, to be sure, that they were a little saltish, and then again, with that exception, there was no remarkable flavor; but that might be the rarity, not to have any flavor.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
People eat these berries and find them good, with a saltish, bitter taste, and yet a dash of sweetness.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson
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
It consists of a few stunted trees; several patches of brush, close set and almost impenetrable; large tufts of sour and wiry grass, and abundance of low saltish plants, chiefly of the creeping kind.
From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by David Collins
