saline meaning
EN
[ˈseɪ.laɪn] [ˈseɪliːn] WSaline
- Saline may refer to:
- Salinity, the salt content of a solution
- Saline water, water containing significant concentration of salts
- Soil salinity, salt content of soil
- Saline seep, seep of saline water
- Saline (medicine), a liquid with salt content to match the human body
- Saline flush, a method of clearing out feeding tubes and intravenous lines
- Borate buffered saline, a buffer used in some biochemical techniques
- Phosphate buffered saline, a buffer solution used in biological research
- Tris-buffered saline, a buffer used in some biochemical techniques
FR saline 
- NounPLsalinesSUF-ine
- Water containing dissolved salt.
- A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
- Water containing dissolved salt.
- AdjectiveCOMmore salineSUPmost saline
- Containing salt; salty.
- Resembling salt.
- a saline taste
- Containing salt; salty.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The animals were perfused with 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA; JT Baker, JTS898-7), after a saline preflush of 50mL that was used to remove the blood.
- To enable them for bioapplications, a prerequisite is to make them dispersible in water and in saline buffers.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Following reperfusion, a portion of the blood was collected by cardiopuncture, and the heart was harvested and washed with ice-cold normal saline.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of saline in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- fr saline
- en salines
- fr salines
- en salinely
- en salineness
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "saline" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.