samphire

English

Marsh samphire (Salicornia europaea), Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales.

Etymology

Originally sampiere, from French Saint Pierre, the patron saint of fishermen who often harvested the plant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsæm.faɪ.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈsæm.fə(ɹ)/

Noun

samphire (countable and uncountable, plural samphires)

1. One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
   1. Plants of genus Salicornia (syn. Salicornia)
      1. Marsh samphire, glasswort, pickleweed (Salicornia europaea), a plant once burned to produce ash used to make soda glass.
   2. Rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum).
   3. Golden samphire (Limbarda crithmoides, syn. Inula crithmoides).
   4. Borrichia arborescens (tree seaside tansy) of the West Indies.
   5. Any plant of species Blutaparon vermiculare
   6. Plants of genus Tecticornia

Translations

marsh samphire

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽角草／盐角草

• Finnish: suolayrtti (fi) (Salicornia); punasuolayrtti (fi) (Salicornia europaea)
• French: salicorne (fr) f
• Galician: salicor m
• German: Queller (de) m, Glasschmelz m
• Irish: lus na gloine m
• Portuguese: salicórnia f
• Spanish: salicornia (es) f
• Welsh: llyrlys m, chwyn hallt m

rock samphire — see rock samphire

golden samphire

• French: inule fausse criste (fr) f, inule perce-pierre (fr) f
• Welsh: sampier y geifr m, cedowydd sugnol m

Borrichia arborescens

• Tagalog: dampalit

plant of the genus Sarcocornia

• Finnish: suolasormikki (fi)

plant of the genus Tecticornia

• Finnish: nivelsarvi (fi)

References

• samphire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “samphire”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• pesharim, seraphim