Definitions

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  • noun A flowering plant of the genus Batis.
  • noun A flowering plant of the genus Salicornia.

Etymologies

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pickle +‎ weed

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Examples

  • Salicornia, which I've always know as pickleweed or sea beans, is a fairly common salt marsh species that you'll find at or just above extreme high tide level.

    Weekend Herb Blogging #117 Haalo 2008

  • Salicornia, also known as pickleweed, is a salty-tasting succulent that grows like a weed - wait, it is a weed!

    NYT > Home Page By HANNAH WALLACE 2010

  • Salicornia, also known as pickleweed, is a salty-tasting succulent that grows like a weed - wait, it is a weed!

    NYT > Home Page By HANNAH WALLACE 2010

  • Vegetation is mostly absent although scattered salt-tolerant plants, such as pickleweed, iodinebush, black greasewood, and inland saltgrass, occur.

    Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA) 2009

  • In Utah there is a plant that grows by the Great Salt Lake which the locals call "pickleweed" and I'm sure it must be a variety of this plant.

    Weekend Herb Blogging #117 Haalo 2008

  • Beyond it lies a low expanse covering hundreds of acres of lush low plants like pickleweed.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Beyond it lies a low expanse covering hundreds of acres of lush low plants like pickleweed.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Beyond it lies a low expanse covering hundreds of acres of lush low plants like pickleweed.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • The fringe of salt marshes that remains commonly has salt grass (Distichlis spicata), salt bush (Atriplex patula), pickleweed (Salicornia virginica) and seaside arrowgrass (Triglochin maritimum), among others.

    Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington 2008

  • Above the Spartina-dominated community are found several succulents, including pickleweed and saltwort.

    Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California 2008

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