saliferous

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

adj.


salt-bearing. See Salt-bush. The word is used in geology in ordinaryEnglish, but the botanical application is Australian.

1890. E. W. Hornung, `A Bride from the Bush,' p. 277:

«You have only to cover the desert with pale-green saliferousbushes, no higher than a man's knee.»

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