salina

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a salt marsh, salt pond, saline lake, or spring

   Workers gathered salt from the shallow salina after the water had evaporated.

2. 2
   noun

   a place where salt is produced or collected

   Great piles of salt stood beside the salina ready for export.

Borrowed from Spanish salina, from Latin salinae ("saltworks, salt pits"), from salinus ("salty"), ultimately from sal ("salt").

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