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Definition of Samphire
1. Noun. Fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass.
Group relationships: Genus Salicornia, Salicornia
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Definition of Samphire
1. n. A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
Definition of Samphire
1. Noun. One of several edible plants growing near the sea, including the rock samphire. ¹
2. Noun. Glasswort, the plant once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Samphire
1. a European herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Samphire
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Samphire
Literary usage of Samphire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1839)
"In this emergency the samphire gatherers were thought of, and sought for ; and,
declining all their offers, Clements insisted upon descending the cliff, ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"samphire is found on rocky cliffs by the seashores of Britain and southward to
northern Africa, the root« penetrating deep into crevices by means of their ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, George Cruikshank (1839)
"In ihis emergency the samphire gatherers were thought of, and sought for ...
Thus far had the samphire gatherer got in his story which he was relating to me ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Though grown and used like true samphire, for which it is often sold, it lacks
the pleasing, aromatic taste of the genuine ..."
5. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London by Horticultural Society of London (1822)
"On the Cultivation of the true samphire, or Crithmum maritimum. In a Letter to
the Secretary. By JOHN BRADDICK, Esq. FHS DEAR SIR, Read August 6, 1816. ..."
6. History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal by Henry Phillips (1822)
"The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles:
half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! ..."
7. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"samphire, Rock samphire, and Sampion. It may be noted that the word samphire
seems also to have had a somewhat general signification: thus Parkinson, ..."
8. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1839)
"In this emergency the samphire gatherers were thought of, and sought for ; and,
declining all their offers, Clements insisted upon descending the cliff, ..."
9. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"samphire is found on rocky cliffs by the seashores of Britain and southward to
northern Africa, the root« penetrating deep into crevices by means of their ..."
10. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, George Cruikshank (1839)
"In ihis emergency the samphire gatherers were thought of, and sought for ...
Thus far had the samphire gatherer got in his story which he was relating to me ..."
11. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Though grown and used like true samphire, for which it is often sold, it lacks
the pleasing, aromatic taste of the genuine ..."
12. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London by Horticultural Society of London (1822)
"On the Cultivation of the true samphire, or Crithmum maritimum. In a Letter to
the Secretary. By JOHN BRADDICK, Esq. FHS DEAR SIR, Read August 6, 1816. ..."
13. History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal by Henry Phillips (1822)
"The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles:
half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! ..."
14. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"samphire, Rock samphire, and Sampion. It may be noted that the word samphire
seems also to have had a somewhat general signification: thus Parkinson, ..."
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