salted
English
Adjective
salted (not comparable)
- To which salt has been added.
- salted peanuts
- 1999 April 6, Pat Kiewicz, rec.gardens.edible (Usenet):
- Dave, if you are eating enough salted nuts for the salt in the nuts to make a difference in the compost pile, you would be better off worrying about what all those nuts are doing to *you* because that would be a *whole lotta nuts*!
- (South Africa, archaic) Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.
- 1901 May 10, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness Investigations”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 131:
- It is possible, again, that cases which have recovered from the disease (so-called salted animals), may assume the role of host, and furnish infective material for the propogation of the disease.
Derived terms
Translations
to which salt has been added
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