tamarisk

tamarisk

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Tamarix aphylla in its natural habitat in Palestine.

From Late Latin tamariscus, from Latin tamarix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæmərɪsk/

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

Albanian: brukë (sq) f Arabic: أَثْل‎ m (ʾaṯl) Bulgarian: ракитовица f (rakitovica) Catalan: tamariu m Chinese: Mandarin: 柽 (zh) (chēng), 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) Italian: tamerice (it) f Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گەز‎ (ku) (gez), کِفر‎ (ku) (kifr) Northern Kurdish: gez (ku) f, kifr (ku) f Latin: tamarix f Manchu: ᠠᡤᠠᡩᠠ ᠮᠣᡠ (agada mou) 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) Slovak: tamariška f Turkish: ılgın (tr) Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎗𐎓𐎗 (ʿrʿr)

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.