Salinas

[ suh-lee-nuh s ]

/ səˈli nəs /

a city in W California.

Definition for salinas (2 of 3)

salina

[ suh-lahy-nuh ]

/ səˈlaɪ nə /

a saline marsh, spring, or the like.

a saltworks.

1690–1700; < Spanish ≪ Latin salīnae saltworks

Salina

[ suh-lahy-nuh ]

/ səˈlaɪ nə /

a city in central Kansas.

Salinas was the home town of John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath and great chronicler of Depression-era California.

The Golden State Is Crumbling |Joel Kotkin |September 2, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Today for many in hardscrabble, majority-Latino Salinas, home to 150,000 people, The Grapes of Wrath is less lyrical than real.

The Golden State Is Crumbling |Joel Kotkin |September 2, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
That night we slept on Salinas Plain, and the next morning reached Monterey.

The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete |William T. Sherman
In 'the country watered by the Salinas and other tributaries of the Gila.'

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 |Hubert Howe Bancroft

Through it runs the Salinas River, winding and bending with great sweeps through its sandy bed.

Across America by Motor-cycle |C. K. Shepherd
It is described as resembling the salinas of New Mexico, and the quantity of salt as inexhaustible.

Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XX |Various
Dade heard a Salinas man exclaim, and flushed at the praise.

The Gringos |B. M. Bower

salina

/ (səˈlaɪnə) /

a salt marsh, lake, or spring

C17: from Spanish, from Medieval Latin: salt pit, from Late Latin salīnus saline

salina

[ sə-lī′nə, -lē′- ]

An area of land encrusted with crystalline salt, especially a salt pan or a salt-encrusted playa.

A body of water, such as a salt marsh, spring, pond, or lake, having a high saline content.