samara
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9.9
- noun
- /səˈmɛrə/
- Specialized
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sámara
- SAMARA:
Examples
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(Photo: Samara Pearlstein)
Blog text (2) -
SAMARA:
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The wind seed of a Maple called Samara auto gyrates as it falls.
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Other popular destinations are Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ufa, and Novosibirsk.
Blog text (2) -
Three practical training schools were set up on Soviet territory, under the administration of the German Reichswehr command, for the joint instruction of German and Soviet soldiers and officers: an aviation school in Lipetsk, a tank school in Kazan, and a chemical warfare school in the Samara region.
Academic text (1999) -
The Russian government had mandated that Caspian Sea oil flowing into Russia be transported to the huge oil distribution terminal in Samara, about seven hundred miles north along the Ural River near Kujbysev, through which all of the oil flowing from western Siberia passed.
Fiction book (2002) -
The truth is that this world is stranger and more beautiful than fiction; anyone who's seen any number of National Geographic or Discovery Channel documentaries or even Ron Fricke's documentaries Baraka and Samara can attest to this.
Blog text (8) -
The samara from the maple tree spiraled down gracefully to the ground.
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Children collected the samaras and watched them twirl in the breeze.
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In autumn, the air is filled with floating samaras as the trees disperse their seeds.
Synonyms
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9.1
A small dry seed with a wing that spins as it falls
A winged fruit from maple or ash trees with one seed that spins as it falls
Surface Forms
Etymology
Samara comes from the Latin word samara, which meant a small 'winged seed', so think of the maple's 'helicopter' seeds that spin as they fall. That's why a samara is a dry, winged fruit that helps a seed travel on the wind.