saltwortn.
Botany.
A name for several maritime and salt-marsh plants. Cf. glasswort n.
1. Any plant of the genus Salsola, spec. S. Kali (Common or Prickly Saltwort); = kali n.1 1.
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1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 37 Kali..hath no name in English... But lest this herbe shoulde be without a name, it maye be called Saltwurt, because it is salt in taste.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Botanicum in Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Salt-wort, Kali.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 101 A Plant..which the Botanists call Kali, and we Salt-wort.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 5 Here Sampire-Banks and Salt-wort bound the Flood.
1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 18 Salsola fruticosa. Shrubby Saltwort.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 177 The salt-wort or glass-wort (salsola kali), grows freely on most of the shores.
1884 Evang. Mag. 343 Here, among the softer sand..is growing..the Kali, or Saltwort.
2. Black Saltwort, Glaux maritima. = milkwort n. 3.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants
sea-purslane1548
frog-bit1578
heartwort1578
milkwort1578
water dragon1578
water-liverwort1578
water milfoil1578
water milfoil1578
water radish1578
arrowhead1597
saltwort1597
water archer1597
calla1601
water-rocket1605
sea rocket1611
water archer1617
water chickweed1633
water purslane1633
arsesmart1640
water hyssop1653
water thyme1655
water serpent1659
Myriophyllum1754
least water plantain1756
mud-weed1756
Thalia1756
water-leaf1756
marsh liverwort1760
bastard plantain1762
wool-weed1765
Ruppia1770
goat's foot1773
pipewort1776
blinking chickweed1777
mudwort1789
arrowleaf1805
water-target1814
water willow1814
felwort1816
water shield1817
mermaid weed1822
mud plantain1822
hydrilla1824
blinks1835
crystalwort1846
naiad1846
waterwort1846
arrow weed1848
willow-thorn1857
lattice leaf1866
marsh flower1866
bonnet1869
lattice plant1877
sea-ash1884
alligator weed1887
water parsley1891
water hyacinth1897
lirio1926
neverwet1927
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 447 Of blacke Salt woort.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 326.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 234 Sea Milkwort, or Black Saltwort.
1867 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) VII. 154.
3. A plant of the genus Salicornia, esp. S. herbacea; = glasswort n. (a).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > glasswort or barilla
glass-weed1568
alkali1578
kali1578
glasswort1597
rock samphire1597
saltwort1597
soda1658
barilla1766
kelpwort1787
Salsola1801
roly-poly1857
Russian thistle1884
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 429 Salicornia. Glassewoort, or Saltwoort.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. 326.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvii. 241 (note) Marsh Sampire, called also jointed Glasswort or Saltwort.
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (new ed.) 110 b Salicornia annua (Salt~wort).
1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787.
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