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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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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

And she says the narrative of the sea buckthorn berry’s discovery is integral to its existence.

From Washington Post May 21, 2016

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

From The New Yorker Apr. 4, 2016

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

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