1. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash; SYN. barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda.
2. Low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves; SYN. Batis maritima.