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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sam·phire n.  Bot. (a) 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!   --Shak.
 (b) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire. (c) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
 Golden samphire. See under Golden.
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