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Webster 1913 Edition
Glasswort
Glass′wortˊ
,Noun.
(Bot.)
A seashore plant of the Spinach family (
Salicornia herbacea
), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali
), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap. Webster 1828 Edition
Glasswort
GL`ASSWORT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
glasswort
glasswort
English
Noun
glasswort (countable and uncountable, plural glassworts)
- Any plant of the salt-tolerant genus Salicornia, once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass.
- Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
- Species of the European genus Sarcocornia
- Species of the Australian genus Tecticornia
- Arthrocnemum subterminale
- Eriogonum salicornioides
- Kali turgida, formerly Salsola kali
- Other plants called samphire.
Synonyms
- (Salicornia): marsh samphire
Translations
a plant
Derived terms
- American glasswort (Salicornia virginica)
- bead glasswort (Tecticornia flabelliformis)
- beaded glasswort (Sarcocornia quinqueflora)
- blackseed glasswort (Tecticornia pergranulata)
- common glasswort (Salicornia europaea)
- dwarf glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii)
- glasswort buckwheat (Eriogonum salicornioides)
- jointed glasswort (Salicornia)
- Pacific glasswort (Sarcocornia pacifica)
- Parish's glasswort (Arthrocnemum subterminale)
- perennial glasswort (Sarcocornia perennis)
- prickly glasswort (Kali turgida)
- purple glasswort (Salicornia ramosissima)
- shrubby glasswort (Tecticornia arbuscula)
- slender glasswort (Salicornia maritima)
- thick-head glasswort (Sarcocornia blackiana)
- Virginia glasswort (Salicornia virginica)
- woody glasswort (Salicornia virginica)