glasswortn.
/ˈɡlɑːswəːt/, /ˈɡlaswəːt/, U.S. /ˈɡlæsˌwərt/, /ˈɡlæsˌwɔrt/ 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.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 429 Salicornia. Glassewoort, or Saltwoort.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1284 Kali spinosum Prickly Glassewort.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 84 Fine sand, and the ashes of glassewort or fearne [the ingredients of glass] . View more context for this quotation
1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 71 The Salt of Glass-wort (called in England Barillia).
1775 R. Twiss Trav. Portugal & Spain 216 Ships loading wines, salt and glass-wort.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 397 The fleshy, jointed stems of the glass-wort.
1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 213 The much-branched but leafless glasswort (Salicornia herbacea).
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 177 The salt-wort or glass-wort (salsola kali), grows freely on most of the shores.
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