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tamarix

tamarix noun: tamarisk.

Noun

tamarix (plural tamarixes)

  1. tamarisk
    • This tamarix combines delightfully when in bloom with the Russian olive. There is an artistic group nearby, where a crabtree and a Russian olive stand on a hilltop with blue sky for a background, behind a tamarix in full bloom of delicate pink and feathery gray green.1912 July, Wisconsin Horticulture, volume 2, number 11, Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5
    • The high plateau of Iran, screened by the higher rims of Elburz and Khorassan from the north winds, is swept by dry icy gales and exposed to great extremes of temperature. There the high treeless steppe of short grass surrounds arid depressions or salt-pans with the usual carpet of low, fleshy...1913, Marcel E. Hardy, An Introduction to Plant Geography (Oxford geographies), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177

Examples of tamarix in a sentence

  • There the high treeless steppe of short grass surrounds arid depressions or salt-pans with the usual carpet of low, fleshy salt-bushes and heaths of tamarixes.1913, Marcel E. Hardy, An Introduction to Plant Geography (Oxford geographies), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177:
  • The tamarixes are not only valuable for their fine-textured foliage but they also flower abundantly in colors of pink or lavender.1941, Bulletin - Agricultural Experiment Station, volume 284, New Mexico State University, →OCLC, page 24:

Forms of tamarix

pluraltamarixes

Origin of tamarix

Learned borrowing from Latin tamarix. Doublet of tamarisk.

Questions about tamarix

What does tamarix mean?
Tamarix means tamarisk.
How do you use tamarix in a sentence?
There the high treeless steppe of short grass surrounds arid depressions or salt-pans with the usual carpet of low, fleshy salt-bushes and heaths of tamarixes.
What part of speech is tamarix?
Tamarix is a noun.
What is the plural of tamarix?
The plural of tamarix is tamarixes.

Words near tamarix in the dictionary

  1. tamarinds
  2. tamarins
  3. tamaris
  4. tamarisk
  5. tamarisks
  6. tamarix
  7. tamarixes
  8. tamarixetin
  9. Tamaroa
  10. Tamartian
  11. Tamartians

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