'Saltwort' definitions:
Definition of 'saltwort'
From: WordNet
noun
Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: saltwort, barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda]
noun
Low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves [syn: saltwort, Batis maritima]
Definition of 'Saltwort'
From: GCIDE
- Saltwort \Salt"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. [1913 Webster]
- Black saltwort, the sea milkwort. [1913 Webster]