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sea buckthorn

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

Maybe, he thought, eating sea buckthorn and gooseberries had “something in it for mankind.”

From The New Yorker Apr. 4, 2016

We followed the main valley for about 6 miles through some interesting conglomerate gorges alternating with open spaces covered with sea buckthorn.

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

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