The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sea buckthorn
Buckthorn \Buck"thorn`\, n. (Bot.) A genus ( Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippopha["e].
Wiktionary
sea buckthorn
n. A deciduous shrub of the genus (taxlink Hippophae genus noshow=1).
Usage examples of "sea buckthorn".
The Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), a thorny shrub with narrow willowlike leaves growing on sandhills and cliffs on the East Coast, and called also ' Sallow Thorn, ' is in no way related to these medicinally employed Buckthorns but belongs to a different natural order: Elaeagnaceae.