Samphire

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See glasswort.
  • n. An Old World coastal plant (Crithmum maritimum) having fleshy compound leaves and small white flowers grouped in compound umbels.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One of several edible plants growing near the sea, including the rock samphire.
  • n. Glasswort, the plant once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
  • n. The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.
  • n. A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A succulent umbelliferous herb, Crithmum maritimum, growing in clefts of rocks close to the sea in western Europe and through the Mediterranean region.
  • n. Borrichia arborescens, a maritime shrub of the West Indies.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    herbaceous plant    Herb   
    Variant
    marsh samphire   
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