Difference between Saliferous and Salty

What is the difference between Saliferous and Salty?

Saliferous as an adjective is yielding or containing salt; saliniferous while Salty as an adjective is tasting of salt.

Saliferous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Yielding or containing salt; saliniferous

Salty

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Tasting of salt.Containing salt.Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services.Pertaining to those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin instead of the Latin .

Example sentence: I'm definitely a serial entrepreneur and a serial snacker. And when it comes to snacks, I'm more of a salty snacker, though I've been known to have a craving for sweets from time to time.

We hope you now know whether to use Saliferous or Salty in your sentence.

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