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UK
/ɡlˈɑːswɔːt/
]
NOUN
- bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
- fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
How To Use glasswort In A Sentence
- Elizabeth you siren me, coriander. glasswort you alveolus me, chocks. Spam, Spam, Spam and Spoetry
- They are known under many other names, including samphire a name they share with a seacoast plant in the carrot family, glasswort, pick-leweed, and poussepierre. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- Crommet Creek has prolific knotweed, salt marsh gerardia, dwarf glasswort, four-toed salamanders and hog-nosed snakes; all rare species in the state. Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
- Salicornes (glasswort in English) are these wild little plants that grow in salt marshes.
- The subfamily Salicornioideae Kostel., more commonly known as samphires or glassworts, are characterized by their distinctive reduced succulent leaves, which may be modified to form an articulated, photosynthetic stem.
- Elizabeth you siren me, coriander. glasswort you alveolus me, chocks. Spam, Spam, Spam and Spoetry
- Glasswort, saltwort, salt grasses and oxeye are other salt-tolerant plants that exist in and around the marsh. Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia
- 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’.
- As she observed, it would have been a great convenience if everyone had agreed long ago to call marsh samphire by its alternative name glasswort (given because it used to be burned to provide alkali for glass-makers).
- Glasswort, saltwort, salt grasses and oxeye are other salt-tolerant plants that exist in and around the marsh. Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia
