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
Wild greens were plentiful; some resembled those at the Cape of Good Hope, "and may be used in place of wormwood;" others were long and saltish, and like sea parsley.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Matthew Flinders
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
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 Julia Ward Howe
Lymph, limf, n. water: a colourless or faintly-yellowish fluid in animal bodies, of a rather saltish taste, and with an alkaline reaction.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
