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
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
Its physical properties are known to every one—it is a thickish, nearly opaque fluid, of a peculiar odor, saltish taste, etc.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Knowlton, Charles
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
Brackish, brak′ish, adj. saltish: applied to water mixed with salt or with sea-water.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.