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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves;
[syn: saltwort, Batis maritima]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Saltwort \Salt"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. [1913 Webster] Black saltwort, the sea milkwort. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Batis maritima n 1: low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves [syn: saltwort, Batis maritima]