saline
adjective/ˈseɪlaɪn/
/ˈseɪliːn/
[usually before noun] (specialist)- containing salt
- Wash the lenses in saline solution.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySaline is used with these nouns:- drip
- solution
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin sal ‘salt’ + -ine.
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