Saliferous [adjective]

Definition of Saliferous:

flavored with sodium chloride

Synonyms of Saliferous:

● Saline

● Alkaline

● Pungent

● Briny

● Sour

● Acrid

● Brackish

● Salt

● Salted

● Highly flavored

● Oversalted

● Saltish


Opposite/Antonyms of Saliferous:

● Dull

● Bland

● Blah


Sentence/Example of Saliferous:

There is little to be said of the animals which belong to the Saliferous period.

It overlies a bed of saliferous sandstone which has been worked for salt.

In Cheshire and Lancashire the gypseous and saliferous red shales and loams of the Trias are between 1000 and 1500 feet thick.