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

Tea made with saltish water, and salt sheep's milk, have been the only drawbacks of the six days' march.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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

The sisters led the way, and the very saltish man followed.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks

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