Tamarisk

//ˈtæmərɪsk//

Synonyms for "tamarisk" (3 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Related words (1)

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Translations

47 translations across 31 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • brukë noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • μυρίκη noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Arabic

2 entries
  • أَثْل noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • طَرْفَاء noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • ракитовица noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Catalan

1 entries
  • tamariu noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Central Kurdish

2 entries
  • کِفر noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • گەز noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 檉 /柽 noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • 檉柳 /柽柳 noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Czech

1 entries
  • tamaryšek noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Danish

1 entries
  • tamarisk noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Egyptian

1 entries
  • i-z:r-M34 noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Finnish

1 entries
  • tamariski noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

French

1 entries
  • tamaris noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Georgian

1 entries
  • იალღუნი noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

German

1 entries
  • Tamariske noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • אֵשֶׁל noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • tamariska noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • tamariszkusz noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Italian

1 entries
  • tamerice noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • жыңғыл noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Latin

1 entries
  • tamarix noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Manchu

1 entries
  • ᠠᡤᠠᡩᠠ ᠮᠣᡠ noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries
  • gez noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • kifr noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • tamarisk noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • tamarisk noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries
  • آج noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • ایلغین noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • طرفا noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • كز noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Polish

1 entries
  • tamaryszek noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • tamarga noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • tamargueira noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • tamarisco noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • tamariz noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Romanian

2 entries
  • cătină noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • tamariscă noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Russian

3 entries
  • гребенщи́к noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • тамари́кс noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)
  • тамари́ск noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Slovak

1 entries
  • tamariška noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Turkish

1 entries
  • ılgın noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Ugaritic

1 entries
  • 𐎓𐎗𐎓𐎗 noun (shrub of the genus Tamarix)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Another example is tamarisk. The shrub was imported from Eurasia and Africa in the mid-1800s to control soil erosion in the American Southwest, but it spread to river systems across the West and up mountainsides, to elevations of 2,000 meters.

Source: tatoeba (7767362)

Not far off a Jewish boy, a mere child, of one of the northern tribes, as shown by his fair hair and blue eyes, sang plaintively a song of the singing of birds and the humming of bees, of the flowers of the North, of rippling streams, of the miraged desert, of the waving of the tamarisk and the scent of roses.

Source: tatoeba (10908513)

He ordered the pack train moved to the right to avoid a possible stampede. Five hundred camels, yaboos and mules, half hid in a valley of tamarisk scrub, were watched by fifty Persian slaves commanded by ten stout Turkomans, of whom Guchee was one.

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