tamarisk

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Tamarix aphylla in its natural habitat in Palestine.

Late Latin tamariscus, from Latin tamarix.

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.

Synonyms

• salt cedar

Translations

shrub of the genus Tamarix

• Arabic: أَثْل m (ʔaṯl)
• Catalan: tamariu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柽 (zh) (chēng), 柽柳 (zh) (chēngliǔ)

• 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)

• Italian: tamerice f
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• Latin: tamarix f
• Manchu: ᠠᡤᠠᡩᠠ
  ᠮᠣᡠ (agada moo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tamarisk m

  Nynorsk: tamarisk m

• 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)
• Turkish: ılgın (tr)

Anagrams

• matrikas

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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.

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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.