tamarisk
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- noun
- /ˈtæməˌrɪsk/
:
tamarisco
- A row of tamarisk trees provided shade during the hot summer day.
- tamarisk tree
- tamarisk shrub
- invasive tamarisk
Examples
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She liked Kyle's boys, who chased each other shouting through the tamarisk.
Fiction book (2002) -
Here and there, a line of tamarisks and acacias marked a settlement, an Arab village clustered about a sandy, rubble-strewn marketplace where camels, sheep, and goats were traded for coffee, sugar, and cloth.
Fiction book (1990) -
The birds marched toward the tamarisk, seeking cover.
Fiction book (2002) -
We passed the ancient fig tree and her odd children, the tamarisks.
Fiction book (1996) -
It being the flood season, we built our house in the trees... with tamarisk walls and willows laid side by side to make a floor.
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Palm fronds and tamarisks quivered in the light that just reached the shore.
Fiction book (1999) -
Poplar, willow, and tamarisk trees alternate with meadows and reeds.
Academic text (2010) -
Nothing was visible but the vague outlines of nearby mesquites and tamarisks.
Fiction book (1997) -
We walked toward a small jacal and a cluster of tamarisk, and above them, a dinosaur fig tree that bowed over them like a hand in its hundredth year of slowly closing.
Fiction book (1996) -
The tamarisk shrub thrives in salty soils along the coast.
Synonyms
A group of small trees and shrubs often planted to hold soil in place
Compounds
A bush with thin branches and many small leaves that often has pink flowers and grows near rivers or coasts
- Specialized
A group of mainly desert shrubs and small trees that can live in salty, dry soil
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tamarisk probably comes from the old name tamarix, and one popular idea says this name came from the River Tamar where the plant grew. That's why a tamarisk is easy to picture as a small tree or shrub that often grows by salty coasts and rivers.