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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

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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

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

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

There were a few willow trees here and a lot of sea buckthorn.

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

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