| 单词 | saltwort |
| 释义 | saltwort (once / 738707 pages) n WORD FAMILY saltwort: saltworts USAGE EXAMPLESThe discovery follows the return to the island's beaches of the prickly saltwort plant, which provides food for the moth's larvae. BBC(Oct 11, 2012) Who would have expected, among the Chenopodeæ, and, above all, in the lowly little Saltworts, to find such a glowing scene as Mr Atkinson describes?— Gosse, Philip Henry, The Romance of Natural History, Sec...(2010) Barilla, a rich potassic manure prepared by burning certain strand plants, especially the saltwort, was also in the past largely exported from Sicily and Spain. Aikman, Charles Morton, Manures and the principles of manur...(2010) 1n bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash Syn|Hyper Salsola kali, Salsola soda, barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems 2n low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves Syn|Hyper Batis maritima bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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