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Glasswort
noun
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Noun
- 1 Any plant of the salt-tolerant genus Salicornia (syn. Sarcocornia), once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass. countable, uncountable
- 2 fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass wordnet
- 3 Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.; Species of the Australian genus Tecticornia countable, uncountable
- 4 bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash wordnet
- 5 Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.; Arthrocnemum subterminale (Parish's glasswort) countable, uncountable
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- 6 Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.; Eriogonum salicornioides (glasswort buckwheat) countable, uncountable
- 7 Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.; Kali turgidum countable, uncountable
- 8 Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.; rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum) countable, uncountable
- 9 Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.; golden samphire (Inula crithmoides, now Limbarda crithmoides) countable, uncountable
Etymology
From glass + wort.
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