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Chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs saltworts
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salsola
Word definitions for salsola in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Salsola is a genus of the subfamily Salsoloideae in the family Amaranthaceae . The genus sensu stricto is distributed in central and southwestern Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. A common name of various members of this genus and related genera ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any member of the genus ''Salsola'' of amarantaceous plants, including the saltwort.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salsola \Sal"so*la\, n. [NL., fr. L. salsus salt, because they contain alkaline salts.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort .
Usage examples of salsola.
The leaflets are raised in Sphaerophysa salsola, Colutea arborea, and Astragalus uliginosus, but are depressed, according to Linnaeus, in Glycyrrhiza.