Consisting of salt or constituting salt: as, saline particles; saline substances.Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of salt; salty: as, a saline taste.n. A salt-spring, or a place where salt water is collected in the earth; a salt-marsh or -pit.Same as halophilous.n. One of the mineral salts, such as sodium or magnesium sulphate, used medicinally.