tamarisk – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Tamarix
tamarisk
Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) shrub, bush
(member-holonym) Tamarix, genus Tamarix
tamarisk (de)
n.
tamarisk
Tamarisk
(n.)
Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Tamarisk
Tamarisk A shrub especially adapted to warm arid climates. In Egypt it was considered to possess great occult virtues. "Many of the temples were surrounded with such trees, preeminently one at Philae, sacred among the sacred, as the body of Osiris was supposed to lie buried under it" (TG 318).