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pickleweed

pickleweed noun: any flowering plant of the genus Salicornia (family Amaranthaceae).

pickleweed: any flowering plant of the genus Salicornia (family Amaranthaceae)
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Noun

pickleweed (countable and uncountable, plural pickleweeds)

  1. Any flowering plant of the genus Salicornia (family Amaranthaceae).
    Synonyms:
    marsh samphire, glasswort, sea bean, saltwort, sea asparagus
  2. A turtleweed (Bataceae spp.).
    1. especially, saltwort (Batis maritima)

Synonyms of pickleweed

All synonyms of pickleweed

Forms of pickleweed

pluralpickleweeds

Origin of pickleweed

From pickle + weed.

Questions about pickleweed

What does pickleweed mean?
Pickleweed means any flowering plant of the genus Salicornia (family Amaranthaceae).
What part of speech is pickleweed?
Pickleweed is a noun.
What is the plural of pickleweed?
The plural of pickleweed is pickleweeds.

Words near pickleweed in the dictionary

  1. picklesome
  2. Pickless
  3. picklet
  4. pickletini
  5. pickletinis
  6. pickleweed
  7. pickleweeds
  8. picklewich
  9. picklewiches
  10. pickleworm
  11. pickleworms

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