saltwort
IPA: sɔɫtwɝt
noun
- Certain plants of various genera that grow in dry, alkali soils, including the following,
- of family Amaranthaceae, including
- Salsola and related genera within subfamily Salsoloideae
- Salicornia (syn. Sarcocornia) spp. (glasswort, pickleweed, swampfire, and marsh samphire)
- Tecticornia spp.
- Suaeda spp. (seepweeds or sea blites)
- Halogeton spp.
- of family Bataceae
- Batis spp.
- especially, Batis maritima, turtleweed, a plant distributed in the southwestern United States, Caribbean, and South America in coastal saltmarshes.
- of family Primulaceae (primroses)
- Lysimachia maritima (syn. Glaux maritima, sea milkwort, sea milkweed), which grows along coasts throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Examples of "saltwort" in Sentences
- Other common salt marsh plants include black rush, saltwort, marsh lavender and marsh elder.
- Above the Spartina-dominated community are found several succulents, including pickleweed and saltwort.
- Glasswort, saltwort, salt grasses and oxeye are other salt-tolerant plants that exist in and around the marsh.
- Common Indian saltwort (Suaeda maritima) occurs in saline soils along the eastern and western coasts of India.
- The roots and stems of saltwort (Basis maritima) were used as food by the Seri Indians in the southwestern United States.
- _Barilla_, a rich potassic manure prepared by burning certain strand plants, especially the saltwort, was also in the past largely exported from Sicily and Spain.
- Large areas on the alluvial saline plains are characterized by halophytic plant communities including Artemisia pauciflora, A. schrenkiana, A. nitrosa and perennial saltwort (Atriplex cana, Anabasis salsa, and Camphorosma monspeliaca).
- The other principal productions of the colony are a species of salsola, or saltwort, called by the natives canna, which affords potash for the soap which is manufactured for domestic use; salt, which is obtained by mere evaporation from numerous lakes; and aloes, natural plantations of which cover a large tract of ground.
- It appeared that the saltwort plants, which were numerous, were not only efficacious in keeping the cattle that fed on them in the best possible condition; but as wholly preventing cattle and sheep from licking clay, a vicious habit to which they are so prone, that grassy runs in the higher country nearer Sydney are sometimes abandoned only on account of the
- It appeared that the saltwort plants, which were numerous, were not only efficacious in keeping the cattle that fed on them in the best possible condition; but as wholly preventing cattle and sheep from licking clay, a vicious habit to which they are so prone, that grassy runs in the higher country nearer Sydney are sometimes abandoned only on account of the “licking holes” they contain.
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