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Significats de glasswort en anglès

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Fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass.

        Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash.

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            Examples for "kali"
            Examples for "kali"
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            Ginger-beer and lemonade, or lemon kali, at sixpence a tiny glass, paid well.
            A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
            2
            She then transforms into Kali and makes short work of the challenge.
            A Wiccan Bible
            3
            The duties in the Kali age, again, are entirely of another kind.
            The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
            4
            Two minutes after it had sliced into the atmosphere, Kali re-entered space.
            The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
            5
            Thus even in the Kali age, Vedic rites are not absolutely unknown.
            The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
            1
            The productions of Teneriffe, for export, are wine and barilla.
            Journal of an African Cruiser / Comprising Sketches of the Canar...
            2
            The barilla plant is also very common; it is collected and burnt, and the ashes exported in considerable quantities.
            Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and ...
            3
            The exports, exclusive of the coasting trade, are wines, barilla, orchilla weed, rock-moss, safflower, (hay-saffron,) and silks.
            A Voyage Round the World, Volume I / Including Travels in Africa...
            4
            We had the good fortune to take a large ship laden with barilla, and a brig with tobacco and wine.
            Frank Mildmay; Or, The Naval Officer
            5
            It took on board a cargo of barilla at Aguilas and Almeria, and returned to England, reaching the Thames in May.
            James Fenimore Cooper / American Men of Letters
            1
            Hooker formerly told me that Salsola kali, a var.
            More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
            Ús de glasswort en anglès
            1
            One type of glasswort played a prominent role in the glass industry in England as a source for sodium oxide, or soda.
            BBC
            2
            The fleshy leaves at a little distance suggest the form of many plants of brackish marsh and creek edges, and even the glasswort itself.
            The Garden, You, and I
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            Glassworts as a group have had a long and interesting career outside of food additives.
            BBC
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            Just on their own, many glassworts are edible, and you might see them on the menu as sea beans or samphire.
            BBC
            Glasswort a través del temps