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TAMARIX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tamarix mean?
• TAMARIX (noun)
The noun TAMARIX has 1 sense:
1. genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia
Familiarity information: TAMARIX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Tamarix; Tamarix
Hypernyms ("Tamarix" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Tamarix"):
tamarisk (any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers; of mostly coastal areas with saline soil)
Holonyms ("Tamarix" is a member of...):
family Tamaricaceae; Tamaricaceae; tamarisk family (family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes))
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