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noun bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
noun low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves
originFrom salt + wort (“plant”).
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