salp

minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end ;

salpa

minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end ;

salpichroa

herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs ;

salpichroa organifolia

weedy vine of Argentina having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit ;

salpichroa rhomboidea

weedy vine of Argentina having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit ;

salpidae

a small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea ;

salpiglossis

any plant of the genus Salpiglossis ;

salpiglossis sinuata

Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat ;

salpinctes

a genus of Troglodytidae ;

salpinctes obsoletus

wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico ;

salpingectomy

surgical removal of one or both Fallopian tubes ;

salpingitis

inflammation of a Fallopian tube (usually the result of infection spreading from the vagina or uterus) or of a Eustachian tube ;

salpinx

a tube in the uterus or the ear ;

salsa

spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods ;

salsify

either of two long roots eaten cooked ; Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States ; edible root of the salsify plant ;

salsilla

tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America ; tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia ;

salsola

chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs: saltworts ;

salsola kali

bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash ;

salsola kali tenuifolia

prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States ;

salsola soda

bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash ;

salt

the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth ; negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons ; white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food ; a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) ;

salt-free diet

a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride); often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders ;

salt-rising bread

white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp ;

salt cod

codfish preserved in salt; must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding; used in e.g. codfish cakes ;

salt depletion

loss of salt from the body without replacement (loss by vomiting or profuse perspiration or urination or diarrhea) thus upsetting the electrolyte balance ;

salt flat

a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water ;

salt i

the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ;

salt ii

the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ;

salt lake city

the capital and largest city of Utah; located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah; world capital of the Mormon Church ;

salt lick

a salt deposit that animals regularly lick ;

salt marsh

low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater ;

salt marsh mallow

subshrub of southeastern United States to New York ;

salt merchant

someone who makes or deals in salt ;

salt mine

a job involving drudgery and confinement ; a mine where salt is dug ;

salt plain

a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water ;

salt pork

fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt ;

salt reed grass

tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows ;

salt rush

rush of the Pacific coast of North America ;

salt shaker

a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt ;

salt tree

spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms ;