saltwort Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
    Salsola soda; kelpwort; kali; barilla; Salsola kali; glasswort.
  2. noun low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves
    Batis maritima.

WordNet

Salt`wort` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.

Webster 1913