tamarisk
any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.
a shrub or small tree, Tamarix chinensis, of Eurasia, having scalelike leaves and clusters of pink flowers, naturalized in the southwestern U.S., where it has become a troublesome weed.
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How to use tamarisk in a sentence
He led across the Kuweik, through the orchards—dim and still, until at a tamarisk bush he halted.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisHe shot a man seven years ago—one of Perucca's men, of course, who was creeping up through the tamarisk trees.
The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton MerrimanThat monument, surrounded by tamarisk bushes, above which its summit rises, bears upon it a memorial figure by Flaxman.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army | Charles Alexander GordonThe tamarisk appears afterwards to have given the idea of a subdivision of leaf more pure and quaint than that of the acanthus.
The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) | John RuskinThe soft crack of a duck-gun came to their ears from far off among the tamarisk bushes beside the green-grey waters.
Bella Donna | Robert Hichens
British Dictionary definitions for tamarisk
/ (ˈtæmərɪsk) /
any of various ornamental trees and shrubs of the genus Tamarix, of the Mediterranean region and S and SE Asia, having scalelike leaves, slender branches, and feathery clusters of pink or whitish flowers: family Tamaricaceae
Origin of tamarisk
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