Salten
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Salten is an adjective meaning (ambitransitive) To make or become salty or salted.
Meaning
(ambitransitive) To make or become salty or salted.
More Meanings
- (rare) salted; salty
Example Sentences
a salten marsh
Rumored as early as 1688, when Baron Lahontan told of a salten sea 300 leagues in circumference, and reported but unseen by Escalante, the Great Salt Lake became the region's chief distinguishing feature.
"Discovered by my old friend Jedediah Smith. One beaver season he come down out of the mountains and saw this marsh land with reeds twenty feet high. ... But o' course it was a great big salten lake. Captain Stansbury went all around it.
It might, however, give more credit to the thermohaline structure in the Atlantic: the large influx of thermocline water saltens the surface layer, while a fresh subsurface layer might be generated by the salt export at intermediate depths.
Word Forms
- saltens
- saltening
- saltened
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include salited, salino-terrene, saline, salt, subsalt, salitrose.
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