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

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.

The waters of the Ocean became saltish owing to the curse of a Rishi.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

Whether all Fruits, Herbs, Earth, Fountains, are naturally saltish in the Isle of Cyprus?

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

As we approach Marseilles, we cross a dreary flat of wide extent, covered with stones and saltish grass, and said to produce the finest cattle in France.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward