noun
definition
One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
Examples of samphire in a Sentence
It is interesting to find maritime plants, such as the samphire, growing on their shores a thousand miles from the sea and more than a thousand feet above it.
This area also has samphire but also many salt pans.
Samphire Hoe is a new piece of England created from 4.9 million cubic meters of chalk marl dug to create the Channel Tunnel.
Look for golden samphire that flowers from July to September, a scarce plant in most of Britain.
My sense of place found a plate of large juicy sweet cockles on a bed of crisp green samphire before me.
It has an earlier season than marsh samphire, and is in season during spring, rather than summer.