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barilla

Noun

ba=ril=la

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barilla(n = noun.plant) glasswort, kali, kelpwort, salsola kali, salsola soda, saltwort - bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash; Array

is a kind of bush, shrub

barilla(n = noun.plant) halogeton souda - Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate; Array

is a member of genus halogeton

is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant

barilla, n. [Sp. barrilla.].

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. [1913 Webster]
The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. Ure. [1913 Webster]

Copper barilla (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also Barilla de cobre.

barilla, n.
1 any plant of the genus Salsola found chiefly in Spain and Sicily.
2 an impure alkali made by burning either this or kelp.

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