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 salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.
Synonyms
- (Salicornia): marsh samphire
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)
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