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S0041200 (sə-lī′nə) A city of northeast Kansas west of Topeka. Founded in the mid-1800s, it grew as an agricultural center.

sa·li·na

S0041200 (sə-lī′nə, -lē′-)n.1. A salt marsh, spring, pond, or lake.2. An area of land encrusted with salt.3. A saltworks.

[Spanish, from Latin salīnae, salt pits, from feminine pl. of salīnus, of salt; see saline.]

salina

(səˈlaɪnə) n (Physical Geography) a salt marsh, lake, or spring[C17: from Spanish, from Medieval Latin: salt pit, from Late Latin salīnus saline]

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n., pl. -nas. 1. a saline marsh. 2. a saltworks. [1690–1700; < Sp « Latin salīnae saltworks]

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Noun

Salina - a town in central KansasKansas, KS, Sunflower State - a state in midwestern United States

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Salina

(səlī`nə), city (1990 pop. 42,303), seat of Saline co., central Kans., on the Smoky Hill River; founded 1858 by settlers opposed to slavery, inc. 1870. It is the marketing and shipping center for an area that produces grain, livestock, oil, and natural gas, and a hub of the hard-winter-wheat belt. The city has grain elevators, flour mills, foundries, and factories that make aircraft, industrial gases, houseboats, electronic devices, soft drinks, plastic and aluminum products, machinery, office supplies, and frozen foods. Kansas Wesleyan Univ., a branch of Kansas State Univ., and a military school are there. Nearby are prehistoric Native American burial grounds.

salina

[sə′lē·nə] (engineering) saltworks (geology) An area, such as a salt flat, in which deposits of crystalline salts are formed or found. (hydrology) A body of water containing high concentrations of salt.

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noun a town in central Kansas

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