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Meanings of tamarisk in English
Genus of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa.
Usage of tamarisk in English
1
He opened up and cleared The tamarisk trees and the stave trees.
2
We strolled later through the sacred precincts, halting in a tamarisk grove.
3
A calumniator was marched round the city in disgrace, crowned with tamarisk.
4
In Amarna, there would be only weeds and tamarisk plants for company.
5
He slid down, clutching at the tamarisk boughs which whipped his face.
6
A great tamarisk with feathery foliage of bright green formed a background.
7
On nearing Kundi we found tamarisk plentiful and good grazing for camels.
8
The old paraschites watched the priests disappear behind the tamarisk bushes.
9
Then he shows me his treasure: a statue of you, carved of tamarisk.
10
They say there's any amount of jackals down there in the tamarisk bushes.
11
These small tamarisk trees that fringe the glade will be bent nearly double.
12
The camel's thorn and tamarisk shrub of the desert had disappeared.
13
The air smelled sweet in the shade of the tamarisk; there was ineffable peace.
14
Behind the high tamarisk hedge, her garden was a jungle of verdure in summer.
15
With a shovel of tamarisk he cleared the slab of its drift of sand.
16
She hurtled past them and rose at the tamarisk-hedge blindly.
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United Kingdom
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