different between savine vs saline

English

Noun

savine (countable and uncountable, plural savines)

1. Alternative form of savin
   • 1837, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (UK), Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 9-10, page 356,

     In Asia Minor, Mount Taurus is covered with forests of cypress, juniper, and savines.

   • 1837, Charles A. Lee, Report of a Trial for Murder, by the Administration of Oil of Savine, for the purpose of procuring Abortion, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volume 21, page 355,

     Believing that she was pregnant, he gave oil of savine, a deleterious drug, intending to bring on abortion, and an inflammation of the womb was produced, and she died.

Anagrams

• Visean, evasin, naives, navies, naïves

English

Etymology

From Middle French salin, from Latin sal (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?se?.la?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?se?li?n/

Adjective

saline (comparative more saline, superlative most saline)

1. Containing salt; salty.
2. Resembling salt.

   a saline taste

Derived terms

• Saline County

Translations

Noun

saline (countable and uncountable, plural salines)

1. Water containing dissolved salt.
2. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

Synonyms

• (water containing dissolved salt): saline solution

Derived terms

• normal saline

Translations

Anagrams

• A-lines, Selina, aliens, alines, laines, lianes, lisena, silane, slaine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.lin/

Adjective

saline

1. feminine singular of salin

Italian

Adjective

saline

1. feminine plural of salino

Noun

saline f pl

1. plural of salina

Anagrams

• lesina