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adj. - Containing or yielding salt.

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Usage examples (15)
  • saliferous formations
  • Adjective : saliferous strata
  • I find since that Dr Wilson states these rocks to be highly saliferous, and says the Arabs scrape them with knives to obtain saltpetre for making their rude gunpowder.
  • The appearance of the country was remarkable, from being covered by a thick crust of common salt, and of a stratified saliferous alluvium, which seems to have been...
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