glaux maritima

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   a small fleshy herb common along North American seashores and in brackish marshes having pink or white flowers

   Synonymssea milkwortsea trifolyblack saltwort

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   Part ofGlaux

Questions about glaux maritima

What does glaux maritima mean?

glaux maritima means "a small fleshy herb common along North American seashores and in brackish marshes having pink or white flowers".

What is another word for glaux maritima?

Close synonyms include sea milkwort, sea trifoly, black saltwort. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glaux maritima a common word?

glaux maritima is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.