sandthorn

plural sandthorns

1. A species of sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), found from western Europe to northwestern China.

   "The breeze is soft and singing through the sandthorn tree."

   2003, Veronika Van Duin, A Rainbow Over the River: Experiences of Life, Death, and Other Worlds, →ISBN, page 159

   2 more examples

   They likewise must ascend mountains by degrees and not make extraordinary leap of the Sandthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides...

   1837, "Professor Link", "Contributions to the Botanical Geography of the South of Europe" in The Analyst vol. 7 http://books.google.com/books?id=mNwEAAAAQAAJ, page 50

   "... the first sandthorns and willows are met with at an altitude of 26-2700 meters."

   1911, Ole Olufsen, The Emir of Bokhara and His Country, page 269

   Synonyms: common sea-buckthorn, Russian sandthorn