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salina1 /səˈlʌɪnə /noun(Chiefly in the Caribbean or South America) a salt pan, salt lake, or salt marsh.Playas (salinas in South America; sabkhas or sebkhas in Africa) are found in closed interior basins, or bolsons, in arid regions....- Salt deserts or salt pans - ‘salinas’ in Latin America - are among the most extreme habitats on Earth.
- Although the industry collapsed more than a century ago, the greater part of the island is occupied by the ‘salinas ‘or salt-ponds, with the remains of sluice gates and windmills still evident.’
Origin Late 16th century: from Spanish, from medieval Latin, 'salt pit', in Latin salinae (plural) 'salt pans'. Salina2 /səˈlīnə /An industrial and commercial city in central Kansas; population 46,483 (est. 2008). Rhymes angina, assigner, china, consignor, decliner, definer, Dinah, diner, diviner, forty-niner, hardliner, incliner, Indo-China, liner, maligner, Medina, miner, minor, mynah, recliner, refiner, Regina, Shekinah, shiner, signer, South Carolina, Steiner, twiner, whiner |