sea buckthorn

British  

noun

1. a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae

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Example Sentences

Dessert revives malt bread as French toast alongside sea buckthorn and pumpkin held through autumn and sharpened into sorbet.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Ingredients for Snow Serum include vitamin B3, olive squalane, rice bran and rose flower water, while Sun Serum is made from vitamin C, gotu kola, sea buckthorn and neroli flower water.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2021

They fanned out across the course climbing the steep mounds in their corsets, thrashing through the Baltic rush and Marram grass, the bittersweet and the sea buckthorn.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017

It’s served cold under a knoll of milk foam, crunchy tarragon sugar and caramelized rye bread, with sour sea buckthorn berries, like ancient shrunken suns, ready to pop.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2016

Groups of small trees, like a sea buckthorn, growing 15 to 20 feet high, indicate a gradual change in the climate as you go Westwards.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth