Associations to the word «Saltwort»
Wiktionary
SALTWORT, noun. Batis maritima, a plant distributed in the southwestern United States, Caribbean, and South America in coastal saltmarshes.
SALTWORT, noun. Glaux maritima, a plant in the primrose family (Primulaceae) and which grows along coasts throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Dictionary definition
SALTWORT, noun. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash.
SALTWORT, noun. Low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves.
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