| 单词 | prickly glasswort |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly glasswort 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in paper, glass, or pottery manufacture > [noun] > glassworts sea-grape1578 crab-grass1597 glasswort1597 marsh samphire1670 kelp1712 crab-weed1790 jume18.. sea-grass1839 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > glasswort or barilla glass-weed1568 alkali1578 kali1578 glasswort1597 rock samphire1597 saltwort1597 soda1658 barilla1766 kelpwort1787 Salsola1801 roly-poly1857 Russian thistle1884 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. prickly glasswort prickly glasswort n. = prickly saltwort n. ΚΠ 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1284 Kali spinosum Prickly Glassewort. 1739 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. II. Eastern shrubby prickly Glasswort, with a stinking ground-pine Leaf. 1935 W. C. L. Muenscher Weeds ii. 214 Salsola Kali... Russian thistle, Saltwort, Prickly glasswort. 1999 Jrnl. Biotechnol. 70 79 (table) Salsola kali..Prickly glasswort... Deadly to cows in large quantities. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。