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Meanings of saltwort in English

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Low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves.

        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"
            1
            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
            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
            3
            Glassworts as a group have had a long and interesting career outside of food additives.
            BBC
            4
            Just on their own, many glassworts are edible, and you might see them on the menu as sea beans or samphire.
            BBC
            1
            Hooker formerly told me that Salsola kali, a var.
            More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...