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Noun glasswort has 2 senses
- saltwort, barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda - bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
--1 is a kind of shrub, bush
- glasswort, samphire, Salicornia europaea - fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
--2 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
--2 is a member of Salicornia, genus Salicornia
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