Crossword clues for tamarisk
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tamarisk \Tam"a*risk\, n. [L. tamariscus, also tamarix, tamarice, Skr. tam[=a]la, tam[=a]laka, a tree with a very dark bark; cf. tamas darkness: cf. F. tamarisc, tamarix, tamaris.] (Bot.) 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 ( Tamarix mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.
Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree ( Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
southern European evergreen shrub, c.1400, from Late Latin tamariscus, variant of tamarix, of unknown origin, probably a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language; perhaps Semitic and related to Hebrew tamar "palm tree, date palm" (see tamarind).
Wiktionary
n. Any of several shrubs, of the genus ''Tamarix'', native to arid regions in Eurasia and Africa, often invasive in other arid regions.
WordNet
n. 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
Wikipedia
Tamarisk is the name of a neighborhood in the city of East Lansing, Michigan. It was constructed during the 1960s. Tamarisk's current population is approximately 350. The neighborhood is bordered by Harrison Avenue to the west, Lake Lansing Road to the north, Riveria Avenue to the east, and Tamarisk Drive to the south.
Tamarisk includes a public park called Tamarisk Park. It has a basketball court, a soccer field, swings, slides, and a volleyball court. The size of the park is .
Tamarisk's entrance is located approximately south of the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Lake Lansing Road.
Construction in Tamarisk neighborhood was started in 1964-65 and the first 2 houses were occupied by December 1966. All neighorhood houses were completed and occupied by 1970.
Tamarisk is a common name for plants in the genus Tamarix, also referred to as saltcedar
Tamarisk may also refer to:
- The colour Tamarisk (colour) named after the colour of Tamarix flowers
- Tamarisk (East Lansing, Michigan) is a neighborhood in East Lansing, Michigan
- Tamarisk (Isles of Scilly) British royal residence
- Tamarisk (horse) racehorse that was named European Champion Sprinter in 1998
- Operation Tamarisk, a Cold War espionage operation
Tamarisk, or Tamarisk House, is a house belonging to Charles, Prince of Wales, on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, in the United Kingdom off the coast of Cornwall.
The house is a cottage built in brick in the mid 1960s, standing in a plot of a quarter of an acre, largely hidden from view by tamarisk trees. It is sometimes lent to friends and relations of the prince. Before he separated from Diana, Princess of Wales, they spent holidays in the Isles of Scilly but preferred to stay with friends on Tresco.
Most of the rural portions of the Isles of Scilly are owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, although most properties in Hugh Town, the largest settlement in the islands, were sold to inhabitants by King George VI in 1949, and the island of Tresco has been leased to the Dorrien Smith family since 1834.
Tamarisks are deciduous flowering shrubs which grow in thickets. They are rarely seen on the English mainland, but flourish in the warmer climate of the Isles of Scilly.
Tamarisk was an Irish-bred champion Thoroughbred racehorse. After showing high class form as a two-year-old in 1997, Tamarisk was named European Champion Sprinter at the 1998 Cartier Racing Awards following a campaign which was highlighted by a win in the Group One Haydock Sprint Cup. Tamarisk was retired after an abortive attempt at the Breeders' Cup Sprint, but failed as a stallion owing to fertility problems. He returned to racing for three further seasons (2000-2002) but was unable to replicate his earlier success. From 2002 to 2006 he returned to stud with marginally better results.
Usage examples of "tamarisk".
They should have been thyme, he thought, thyme and arbutus and tamarisk clothing the capes of the Sicilian sea, for this was a night of Theocritus.
Crabgrass, dandelions, kudzu, knotweed, tamarisk, leafy spurge, and norway maple, pushing native species to extinction.
A soft breeze whispered through the tamarisk and persea trees that shaded the bench, with a chorus of birdsong forming a musical counterpoint.
Towards the south, where Arba lay on a low hill of earth, without grass or trees, beyond a mound covered thickly with tamarisk bushes, which was a feedingplace for immense herds of camels, the blue was clear and the light of the sun intense.
Artaban, standing beside it, and waving a barsom of thin tamarisk branches above the fire, fed it with dry sticks of pine and fragrant oils.
The orange soil was speckled by thickets of gray-green tamarisk and spindly catclaw trees, while crests of dark basalt wound across the valley floor like the shattered vestiges of some ancient and long-forgotten rampart.
Bricks of Nile mud, and Memphite and Theban tombs have yielded us leaves, twigs, and even whole branches of the tamarisk.
A thin little stream threaded the ravine, and on its banks grew clumps of the tamarisk, the oleander, and the thuya, making an oasis grateful to the eyes.
Beyond the wall was a garden of palms, of flowering oleanders and tamarisks, cascading riots of fantastic flowers.
A growth of cottonwoods, tamarisks, and rabbitbrush at the lip of the wash showed where a spring flowed.
And while her brother lay face to the sky under the tamarisks, she kept trying to think of how to console him, conscious that she did not in the least understand the way he thought about things.
Stopping beside the way, many hours later, we made a lunch of cheese from Dinavar and pears of the district while seated beneath tamarisk and chinar trees.
At the same time he was trying to introduce into the lichen’s fungus some phreatophytic genes from salt-tolerant plants like tamarisk and pickleweed.
Shed been sitting beside a thicket of tamarisk, stabilizing a fragile basket with polyvinyl acetate, when her assistant Bruce Jenkins gave a sudden yelp.
Now, they came in with deeper plantings -- ephemerals (chenopods, pigweeds, and amaranth to begin), then scotch broom, low lupine, vine eucalyptus (the type adapted for Caladan's northern reaches), dwarf tamarisk, shore pine -- then the true desert growths: candelilla, saguaro, and bis-naga, the barrel cactus.