|  saltwort 
 
 1. bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves;
 burned to produce a crude soda ash
 • Syn:
 barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda
 • Hypernyms:
 shrub, bush
 2. low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves
 • Syn:
 Batis maritima
 • Hypernyms:
 shrub, bush
 • Member Holonyms:
 Batis, genus Batis
 
 
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