tamarisk

English

Etymology

athel tamarisk (Tamarix aphylla) in its natural habitat in Israel.

From Late Latin tamariscus, from Latin tamarix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæmərɪsk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tamarisk (plural tamarisks)

1. Any of several shrubs, of the genus Tamarix, native to arid regions in Eurasia and Africa, often invasive in other arid regions.
   • 1938, Walter Claremartin, Golden Hour of Guchee:

     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.

Synonyms

• salt cedar

Derived terms

• African tamarisk (Tamarix africana)
• athel tamarisk (Tamarix aphylla)
• Canary Islands tamarisk (Tamarix canariensis)
• Chinese tamarisk (Tamarix chinensis)
• false tamarisk (Myrica germanica)
• five-stamen tamarisk (Tamarix chinensis)
• four-tamarisk (Tamarix tetrandra)
• French tamarisk (Tamarix gallica)
• German tamarisk (Myrica germanica)
• Kashgar tamarisk (Tamarix hispida)
• Nile tamarisk (Tamarix nilotica)
• pink tamarisk (Tamarix ramosissima )
• smallflower tamarisk (Tamarix parviflora)
• tamarisk gall
• tamarisk gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)
• tamarisk jird (Meriones tamariscinus)
• wild tamarisk (Tamarix usneoides)

Translations

shrub of the genus Tamarix

• Albanian: brukë (sq) f
• Arabic: أَثْل m (ʔaṯl), طَرْفَاء f (ṭarfāʔ)
• Bulgarian: ракитовица f (rakitovica)
• Catalan: tamariu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 檉 / 柽 (zh) (chēng), 檉柳 / 柽柳 (zh) (chēngliǔ)

• Czech: tamaryšek m
• Danish: tamarisk (da) c
• Egyptian: (jzr)
• Finnish: tamariski (fi)
• French: tamaris (fr) m
• Georgian: იალღუნი (ialɣuni)
• German: Tamariske (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: μυρίκη f (muríkē)

• Hebrew: אֵשֶׁל (he) m (éshel)
• Hungarian: tamariska (hu), tamariszkusz (hu)
• Italian: tamerice (it) f
• Kazakh: жыңғыл f (jyñğyl)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گەز (gez), کِفر (kifr)

  Northern Kurdish: gez (ku) f, kifr (ku) f

• Latin: tamarix f
• Manchu: ᠠᡤᠠᡩᠠ
  ᠮᠣᡠ (agada mou)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tamarisk m

  Nynorsk: tamarisk m

• Ottoman Turkish: ایلغین (ılğın), كز (gez), طرفا (tarfa), آج (ac)
• Polish: tamaryszek m
• Portuguese: tamarga f, tamarisco m, tamargueira (pt) f, tamariz (pt) m, tramaga f, tramagueira f
• Romanian: cătină (ro) f, tamariscă (ro) f
• Russian: гребенщи́к (ru) m (grebenščík), тамари́кс (ru) m (tamaríks), тамари́ск (ru) m (tamarísk)
• Slovak: tamariška f
• Turkish: ılgın (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎗𐎓𐎗 (ʿrʿr)

References

• “tamarisk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• tamarisk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tamarix on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Tamarix on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• matrikas

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin tamariscus, from Latin tamarix.

Noun

tamarisk m (definite singular tamarisken, indefinite plural tamarisker, definite plural tamariskene)

1. tamarisk (genus Tamarix)

References

• “tamarisk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin tamariscus, from Latin tamarix.

Noun

tamarisk m (definite singular tamarisken, indefinite plural tamariskar, definite plural tamariskane)

1. tamarisk (genus Tamarix)

References

• “tamarisk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.