Definition of Tamarix

1. Noun. Genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia.

Exact synonyms: Genus Tamarix
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Tamaricaceae, Tamaricaceae, Tamarisk Family
Member holonyms: Tamarisk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamarix

Talwin
Talyrond
Tamagotchi
Tamahaq
Tamajaq
Tamandua tetradactyla
Tamanduateí
Tamar
Tamara
Tamara Karsavina
Tamari lattice
Tamari lattices
Tamaricaceae
Tamarindus
Tamarindus indica
Tamarix (current term)
Tamasheq
Tamaulipas
Tamazight
Tamblin
Tambling
Tamblyn
Tambocor
Tambov
Tamburlaine
Tamera
Tamerlane
Tameside
Tamiami virus
Tamias striatus

Literary usage of Tamarix

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"Tamarix Gallica, Linne.* South Europe, North and tropical Africa, ... Tamarix Germanica, Linne. Europe and "West Asia, ascending to 15000 feet in the ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"It is sometimes found altered to chrysocolla. Tamarix ... (Berthe lot, Compt. rend. liii. 583.) Tamarix. From the flowers of the French tamarisk ( Tamarix ..."

3. The Plants of the Bible by John Hutton Balfour (1885)
"Tamarix oriental-is, the Eastern tamarisk-tree. ... grows in the arid sands of the Dead Sea; and Tamarix gallica is also found near the shores of Palestine. ..."

4. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"THIS flexible shrub is the Mup/xij of the Greeks, and the Myrica and Tamarix of the Latins. The latter name is supposed to have been derived from the Hebrew ..."

5. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"Tamarix. Natural order, Succulenta. ... of the Greeks, and the Myrica and Tamarix of the Latins. The latter name is supposed to have been derived from the ..."

6. Our Woodland Trees by Francis George Heath (1878)
"Tamarix gallica. PLATE 7, FIG. 3. !;ROWING almost exclusively in the south of England, and rarely even there exceeding the size of a shrub ten feet in ..."

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