grains of salt
1Salt-cured meat — or salted meat, for example ham, bacon, or kippered herring, is meat or fish preserved or cured by salt or brine. Beef jerky also is involved in salt preservation. Salted meat and fish are commonly eaten as a staple of the diet in North Africa,… …
2salt — 1 noun 1 (U) a natural white mineral that is added to food to make it taste better or to preserve it; sodium chloride technical: Try to reduce the amount of salt you use. | a pinch of salt | table salt (=very small grains of salt you use in… …
3Grains of Selim — seed pods The term Grains of Selim refers to the seeds of a shrubby tree, Xylopia aethiopica, found in Africa. It is also known as kimba pepper, African pepper, Moor pepper, Negro pepper, Kani pepper, Kili pepper, Sénégal pepper, Ethiopian pepper …
4salt dome — Geol. a domelike rock structure that is formed beneath the earth s surface by the upward movement of a mass of salt, may reach thousands of feet in vertical extent, and is more or less circular in plan: often associated with oil and gas pools. Cf …
5Salt — This article is about common table salt. For other uses, see Salt (disambiguation). Table salt (NaCl) crystal …
6Grains of paradise — Grain Grain (gr[=a]n), n. [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed, small kernel, small particle. See {Corn}, and cf. {Garner}, n., {Garnet}, {Gram} the chick pea, {Granule}, {Kernel.}] [1913 Webster] 1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of …
7Salṭ, As- — ▪ Jordan also spelled Salt, or Es salt, town, west central Jordan. It is on the old main highway (often called the As Salṭ Road) leading from Amman to Jerusalem. The town is situated in the Al Balqāʾ highland, about 2,600–2,750 feet… …
8table salt — table ,salt noun uncount fine grains of salt that you can put on your food when you eat it …
9table salt — UK / US noun [uncountable] fine grains of salt that you can put on your food when you eat it …
10Kosher salt — Box of kosher salt Koshering salt, usually referred to as kosher salt in the US, is a variety of edible salt with a much larger grain size than some common table salt. Like common table salt, kosher salt consists of the chemical compound sodium… …
