glasswort
Nouns
- (n) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort,
- (n) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass Salicornia europaea, samphire,