samphire

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Etymology

Originally sampiere, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French Saint Pierre, the patron saint of fishermen who often harvested the plant.

Pronunciation

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Noun

samphire (countable and uncountable, plural samphires)

  1. One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
    1. Marsh samphire, glasswort (genus Salicornia), a plant once burned to produce ash used to make soda glass.
    2. Rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum).
    3. Golden samphire (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., now Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.).
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Translations
rock samphire — see rock samphire

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