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 well El-Kusayr, just below the ruin, though at present closed, yielded till lately a large quantity: about half a mile to the westward is, or rather was, a saltish pit surrounded by four sweet.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
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
