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  1. Glasswort
    The common name glasswort came into use in the 16th century to describe plants growing in England whose ashes could be used for making soda-based (as opposed to potash-based) glass. The glassworts are succulent, annual "halophytes", or plants that thrive in saline environments, such as seacoasts an...
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  2. glasswort
    [n] - fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers
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  3. Glasswort
    Glass'wort` noun (Botany) A seashore plant of the Spinach family ( Salicornia herbacea ), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family ( Salsola Kali ), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yie...
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  4. glasswort
    <botany> A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar ...
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  5. glasswort
    kelpwort noun bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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  6. Glasswort
    • (n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
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  7. glasswort
    any of about 30 species of succulent herbs constituting the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae). They are annual plants native ...
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  8. Glasswort
    Glasswort (marsh-samphire, saltwort) are plants of the genus Salicornia, family Chenopodiaceae. They are succulent marine herbs growing abundantly on the coasts of southern Europe and north Africa. When burnt their ashes yield soda which was once used in making glass, hence the name glasswort.
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  9. glasswort
    1) Barilla 2) Bush 3) Kali 4) Kelpwort 5) Salsola kali 6) Salsola soda 7) Saltwort 8) Shrub
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/glasswort/1

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