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tamarisk
[ tam-uh-risk ]
noun
- 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.
tamarisk
/ ˈtæmərɪsk /
noun
- 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
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Example Sentences
He led across the Kuweik, through the orchards—dim and still, until at a tamarisk bush he halted.
He shot a man seven years ago—one of Perucca's men, of course, who was creeping up through the tamarisk trees.
That monument, surrounded by tamarisk bushes, above which its summit rises, bears upon it a memorial figure by Flaxman.
The tamarisk appears afterwards to have given the idea of a subdivision of leaf more pure and quaint than that of the acanthus.
The soft crack of a duck-gun came to their ears from far off among the tamarisk bushes beside the green-grey waters.
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