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.
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She then transforms into Kali and makes short work of the challenge.
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The duties in the Kali age, again, are entirely of another kind.
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Two minutes after it had sliced into the atmosphere, Kali re-entered space.
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Thus even in the Kali age, Vedic rites are not absolutely unknown.
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The productions of Teneriffe, for export, are wine and barilla.
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The barilla plant is also very common; it is collected and burnt, and the ashes exported in considerable quantities.
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The exports, exclusive of the coasting trade, are wines, barilla, orchilla weed, rock-moss, safflower, (hay-saffron,) and silks.
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We had the good fortune to take a large ship laden with barilla, and a brig with tobacco and wine.
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It took on board a cargo of barilla at Aguilas and Almeria, and returned to England, reaching the Thames in May.
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Hooker formerly told me that Salsola kali, a var.
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One type of glasswort played a prominent role in the glass industry in England as a source for sodium oxide, or soda.
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The fleshy leaves at a little distance suggest the form of many plants of brackish marsh and creek edges, and even the glasswort itself.
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Glassworts as a group have had a long and interesting career outside of food additives.
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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.