bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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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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Saltwort \Salt"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the {Batis maritima}, and the glasswort. See {Glasswort}.