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

Karstad, a chef, former culinary advisor to the legendary Noma team and father of four, knows that not all of us can raise our own chickens or have easy access to sea buckthorn.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021

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

It contains sea buckthorn and evening primrose, but the secret weapon may be the black currant seed oil.

From New York Times • May 10, 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

In places where the valley widened out, the river bed was full of bushes of tamarisk and sea buckthorn, but otherwise the vegetation was scanty.

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