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glasswort|ˈglɑːswɜːt, -æ-|
A name for certain plants containing a large amount of alkali, and on that account formerly used in the manufacture of glass. a. A plant of the genus Salicornia, esp. S. herbacea; called also jointed glasswort. b. Salsola Kali; called also prickly glasswort.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxlvii. 429 Salicornia, Glassewoort, or Saltwoort..The herbe is also called of diuers Kali articulatum, or iointed Glassewoort. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1284 Kali spinosum, Prickly Glassewort. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 84 Fine sand, and the ashes of glassewort or fearne [the ingredients of glass]. 1742Phil. Trans. XLII. 71 The Salt of Glass-wort (called in England Barillia). 1775R. Twiss Trav. Port. & Sp. 216 Ships loading wines, salt and glass-wort. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 397 The fleshy, jointed stems of the glass-wort. 1861S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 213 The much-branched but leafless glasswort (Salicornia herbacea). 1862Ansted Channel Isl. ii. viii. (ed. 2) 177 The salt-wort or glass-wort (salsola kali), grows freely on most of the shores. |