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sampire

sampire is the alternative form of samphire.

Meaning of samphire

Noun

samphire (countable and uncountable, plural samphires)

  1. Plants of genus Salicornia (syn. Salicornia)
  2. Marsh samphire, glasswort, pickleweed (Salicornia europaea), a plant once burned to produce ash used to make soda glass.
  3. Rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum).
  4. Golden samphire (Limbarda crithmoides, syn. Inula crithmoides).
  5. tree seaside tansy (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
  6. Plant of the species Gomphrena vermicularis

See all 7 meanings of samphire

Forms of sampire

pluralsampires

Questions about sampire

What is sampire the alternative form of?
Sampire is the alternative form of samphire.

Words near sampire in the dictionary

  1. samphires
  2. samphor
  3. sampi
  4. sampietrini
  5. sampietrino
  6. sampire
  7. sampires
  8. sampis
  9. samplable
  10. sampladelia
  11. sampladelic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sampire (page history and authors); samphire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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