SALTWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saltwort mean? 

• SALTWORT (noun)
  The noun SALTWORT has 2 senses:

1. bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash

2. low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves

  Familiarity information: SALTWORT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALTWORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

barilla; glasswort; kali; kelpwort; Salsola kali; Salsola soda; saltwort

Hypernyms ("saltwort" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Batis maritima; saltwort

Hypernyms ("saltwort" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("saltwort" is a member of...):

Batis; genus Batis (small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs)