Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Salicornia, growing in salt marshes and having fleshy stems and rudimentary, scalelike leaves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun About 6 species of glasswort (Salicornia) are now said to be found in North America, inhabiting mainly the salt-marshes of the coast, but sometimes (the same or different species) growing on saline ground inland. S. herbacea, the slender or jointed glasswort or marsh-samphire (also called
pickle-plant ), together with S. Bigelovii, turns a vivid red in autumn, becoming very showy on the Atlantic coast, while S. ambigua, the woody glasswort (also calledpickle-weed ), presents a diversity of brilliant color jn the Pacific salt-marshes. - noun A plant of the chenopodiaceous genus Salicornia, succulent saline plants with leafless jointed stems and containing a large proportion of soda.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (
Salicornia herbacea ), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali ), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The plant of the genus Salicornia, once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass.
- noun Any of the edible plants called
samphire .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
- noun fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The higher zones support halophytes such as glasswort Salicornia ramossissima with seablite Suaeda sp. and Arthrocnemum perenne.
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He serves short ribs, potatoes, fried bone marrow, corn puree and pickled sea beans glasswort.
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Crommet Creek has prolific knotweed, salt marsh gerardia, dwarf glasswort, four-toed salamanders and hog-nosed snakes; all rare species in the state.
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire 2008
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The slender bright green glasswort that grows on northern beaches was called tétine-de-souris, literally, a mouse tit.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The slender bright green glasswort that grows on northern beaches was called tétine-de-souris, literally, a mouse tit.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Salt marshes are the most prevalent types of tidal marshes and are characterized by salttolerant plants such as smooth cordgrass, saltgrass, and glasswort.
Wetland 2008
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Elizabeth you siren me, coriander. glasswort you alveolus me, chocks.
Spam, Spam, Spam and Spoetry Sharon Bakar 2006
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The site's extensive salt marshes are dominated by a mixture of saltmarsh cordgrass, salt grass, black needlerush, sea ox-eye, glasswort and sea lavender.
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They are known under many other names, including samphire a name they share with a seacoast plant in the carrot family, glasswort, pick-leweed, and poussepierre.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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They are known under many other names, including samphire a name they share with a seacoast plant in the carrot family, glasswort, pick-leweed, and poussepierre.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
knitandpurl commented on the word glasswort
"Then ask him if he wouldn't happen to have some glasswort, and if not than percebes, or goose barnacles, those little crustaceans like the ones you find in Galicia and the Madrilenian markets."
My Beautiful Bus by Jacques Jouet, translated by Eric Lamb, p 45
May 22, 2013