A widely distributed salt-marsh plant with fleshy scale-like leaves. The ashes of the burnt plant were formerly used in glass-making.
欧洲海蓬子；盐角草属植物；钾猪毛菜
Genus Salicornia, family Chenopodiaceae: several species
Example sentencesExamples
It would have been a great convenience if everyone had agreed long ago to call marsh samphire by its alternative name glasswort (given because it used to be burned to provide alkali for glass-makers).
Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.
Salicornes (glasswort in English) are these wild little plants that grow in salt marshes.
So I repaired to slightly higher ground away from the bank, found a nice black mangrove to provide some shade and plopped down on a bed of glasswort.
Definition of glasswort in US English:
glasswort
noun
A widely distributed salt-marsh plant with fleshy scale-like leaves. The ashes of the burned plant were formerly used in glass-making.
欧洲海蓬子；盐角草属植物；钾猪毛菜
Genus Salicornia, family Chenopodiaceae: several species
Also called samphire
Example sentencesExamples
So I repaired to slightly higher ground away from the bank, found a nice black mangrove to provide some shade and plopped down on a bed of glasswort.
It would have been a great convenience if everyone had agreed long ago to call marsh samphire by its alternative name glasswort (given because it used to be burned to provide alkali for glass-makers).
Salicornes (glasswort in English) are these wild little plants that grow in salt marshes.
Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.