salina : Idioms & Phrases


artemia salina

  • noun common to saline lakes
    brine shrimp.
WordNet

salina period

Sa*li"na pe"ri*od
Etymology
So called from Salina, a town in New York.
Definitions
  1. (Geol.) The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.
Webster 1913