salt·wort /-ˌwɝt, ˌwɔrt/
黎科岡羊西菜屬植物
Salt·wort n. Bot. A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.
Black saltwort, the sea milkwort.
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saltwort
n 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]
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]