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Definition of saline noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

saline

noun

/ˈseɪlaɪn/

/ˈseɪliːn/

[uncountable] (specialist)

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a mixture of salt in water
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin sal ‘salt’ + -ine.

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