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containing or yielding salt“saliferous formations”“In the south-east of the republic there is a major well-known saliferous basin with stone and potassium-magnesium salts”Opposite freshSimilar salty

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Sa·lif′er·ous adjective

Origin: L. sal salt + -ferous.

Producing, or impregnated with, salt.

Saliferous rocks Geology, the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; — so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54