A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles. "Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!"
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The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); called in England marsh samphire.
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A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
... diamond scrawl; and before my eyes I seemed to see the three fires burning, the clattering rows of wooden masks, the white blankets of the sachems, the tawny, naked form of the Cherry-Maid, seated between samphire and hazel, her pointed fingers on her hips, her heavy hair veiling a laughing face, over which ... — The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers
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