glasswort (English, noun)
expansion: glasswort (countable and uncountable, plural glassworts)
Senses:
glosses: Any plant of the salt-tolerant genus Salicornia (syn. Sarcocornia), once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass.
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glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
Species of the Australian genus Tecticornia
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glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
Arthrocnemum subterminale (Parish's glasswort)
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glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
Eriogonum salicornioides (glasswort buckwheat)
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glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
Kali turgidum
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glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.
rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum)
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glosses: Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.
golden samphire (Inula crithmoides, now Limbarda crithmoides)
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Forms:
form: glassworts
tags: plural