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Definition of Batis maritima
1. Noun. Low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batis Maritima
Literary usage of Batis maritima
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1850)
"Yet Batis maritima has no real relationship to Salicornia, but is placed by
Lindley (The Vegetable Kingdom) as a tribe or suborder ..."
2. An Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"170), a plant from the Algerian desert, Batis maritima (Fig. 171), growing on
wet, salt, tropical beaches, and Cassiope te- /^TX ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"Thus, for example, Sesuvium Portulacastrum and Batis maritima both occur on the
highly saline flats of the southern shore of the island of Jamaica. ..."
4. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"Excepting with the fruits of Batis maritima, and perhaps the buoyant joints of
Salicornia, scarcely any of the prevailing shore- plants of the coast of Peru ..."
5. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"In Spain, soda is procured from the different species of the salsola salicornia
and batis maritima. The zostera maritima is burnt in some places on the ..."
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