What's the difference between glasswort and samphire?
Glasswort
Definition:
(n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
Example Sentences:
(1) As was shown using the acetylene technique, the nitrogenase activity of Rhizobium meliloti and Rhizobium vigna increased when they were cultivated with the root tissue cultures of legumes (lucerne, sweetclover) and non-legumes (tobacco, glasswort, carrot), particularly in the case of the former.
Samphire
Definition:
(n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
(n.) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.
(n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new Kitchen Garden menu offers more veggie choices such as garlic veloute with grapes and almonds and gnocchi Parisienne with samphire and vierge dressing.
(2) It's all wisteria on Georgian cottages, antimacassars, samphire sprouting from the Otter estuary , meaningful looks exchanged over the morning paper.
(3) Crab toasts with samphire and radishes FOR 12 CANAPES orange juice of 1 lemons 2 lime 1 red wine vinegar 1 tbsp radishes 100g mixed white and brown crab meat 500g mayonnaise 4 tbsp baguette 25 thin slices samphire 24 small sprigs Squeeze the juice from the orange, lemons and lime into a mixing bowl then add the red wine vinegar.
(4) Inside, the cabins are rustic chic, with plump duvets and rain showers, and fully-fitted kitchens where you can cook the mussels you buy from the seafood shacks and the samphire you collect from the beach.
(5) Birdwatchers head to the Mawddach estuary, while gourmands stalk local lamb and samphire.
(6) Where once we made do with cabbage and spinach, now most metropolitan supermarkets stock chard, chicory, fennel, samphire, purple sprouting broccoli, even cavolo nero.
(7) Guests can expect the appearance of long radishes with white tips, fennel fronds, mint and samphire with its explicit taste of the sea.
(8) Toast the bread lightly on both sides, then pile with the crab mayonnaise, adding a few slices of radish to each, and a sprig or two of samphire.
(9) The menu (mains from £15) changes daily but summer fare has included sweetbreads, squid, duck hearts, samphire and pickled gooseberries.