NOUN
- bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
- Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate
How To Use barilla In A Sentence
- To make matters worse at the time he succeeded to the ownership of Barra, the Government reduced the duty on imported barilla, knocking out the prop which kept the kelping industry afloat.
- Barilla has this fantastic (and shockingly cheap) spinach/ricotta tortellini, which is functioning as my lunch right now. February 20th, 2005
- See also "Fucus," in this volume, for method of preparing barilla and soda from sea-weeds. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- According to the analysis of Uŕ e, "good barilla contains twenty per cent. of real alkali, associated with muriates and sulphates of lime, soda," etc. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- Steep in a fresh liquor of Barilla ash or soda plus sheep's dung, olive oil and white argol. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- Their ash (sometimes called barilla, the common name for one of them, Salsola soda) was used in the production of glass; hence the name ‘glasswort’.
- Halogeton sativus is one of the plants from which barilla was made.
- Notwithstanding, the author adds, that kelp contains but two or three per cent. of carbonate of soda, while Spanish barilla often contains twenty or thirty [see "Salsola" and "Salicornia"], Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- The barilla is obtained in France from Salicornia annua, which yields fourteen per cent. of soda. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- But, as it is believed, at the instigation of one member of the cabinet, himself largely connected with foreign trade, without enquiry and without warning, the market was thrown open to competition from without, barilla imported, and the staple product of the north of Scotland annihilated. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.