Samphire is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SAMPHIRE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a fleshy coastal plant, also SAMPIRE
• a European plant of the parsley family, which grows on rocks and cliffs by the sea. Its aromatic fleshy leaves are sometimes eaten as a vegetable.
• used in names of fleshy-leaved plants resembling samphire that grow near the sea, e.g. golden samphire.
• plant found on rocks by the seashore
• A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
• The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.
• A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
• fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a European herb

Words related to SAMPHIRE

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Words that contain SAMPHIRE

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How to use SAMPHIRE in a sentence

• A little billow, spreading wide, gave a slight roll to the boat, and some samphire reeds flapped before it.
• We did not notice a single tree but plenty of low prickly bushes, samphire, and a small plant somewhat resembling the English heath.
• Its whiteness was occasionally chequered with dark green masses of samphire, which grew there.
• Samphire, of the true sort, is a herb difficult to be gathered, because it grows only out of the crevices of lofty perpendicular rocks which cannot be easily scaled.
• Pliny says Samphire is the very herb that the good country wife Hecate prepared for Theseus when going against the Bull of Marathon.
• The mould is sand by the seaside, producing a large sort of samphire, which bears a white flower.

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