glasswort

glasswort has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
• n.. bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash