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What is a samphire?

What is a samphire? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
    1. The marsh samphire, glasswort, genus Salicornia, a plant once burned to produce ash used to make soda glass.
    2. The rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum.
    3. The golden samphire, Inula crithmoides.
    4. Borrichia arborescens of the West Indies.
    5. Plants of genus Sarcocornia
    6. Plants of genus Tecticornia
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We should be using more traditional ingredients such as kale, samphire and asparagus in our cooking.
The fish were gutted and stuffed with a spoonful of herbs, or mustard, apple, or samphire.
The chef dishes it up with parsley sauce, in fish pie, and with samphire and cockles in his recent book Fish, Etc.
Marsh samphire is more salty than rock samphire and does not have the same powerful aroma.
They gather driftwood for fuel and share a dinner of roast pigeons and boiled samphire.
The chef's special was Brochettes of scallops and prawn on a bed of green leaves and samphire grass.

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