different between samphire vs camphire

English

Etymology

Originally sampiere, from French Saint Pierre, the patron saint of fishermen who often harvested the plant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sæm.fa?.?(?)/, /?sæm.f?(?)/

Noun

samphire (countable and uncountable, plural samphires)

1. One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
   1. Marsh samphire, glasswort (genus Salicornia), a plant once burned to produce ash used to make soda glass.
   2. Rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum).
   3. Golden samphire (Inula crithmoides, now Limbarda crithmoides).
   4. Borrichia arborescens of the West Indies.
   5. Plants of genus Sarcocornia
   6. Plants of genus Tecticornia

Translations

Anagrams

• pesharim, seraphim

English

Etymology

Malapropism in the English Bible of the Hebrew ?????? / ???????? (k?p?er, “henna”) by confusion with camphor. The Hebrew is from Akkadian ???????????? (kupru, “bitumen, pitch”) from Akkadian ???????????? (kap?ru, “to smear, to daub on”).

Noun

camphire (plural camphires)

1. Camphor.
2. The fragrant henna flower (or plant) (Lawsonia inermis, syn. Lawsonia alba)

References

• camphire at OneLook Dictionary Search
• camphire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

• Smith, William (1868) A Dictionary of the Bible, 2nd edition, page 350

Anagrams

• hemicarp