tamarisk

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von tamarisk im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch: ılgın ağacı; ılgın; (isim) ılgın; i., bot. ılgın; (isim) Ilgın

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von tamarisk im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Any of several shrubs, of the genus Tamarix, native to the Mediterranean. Introduced into the United States as an ornamental plant, it is now a weed; {n} a plant of two species; Heb 'eshel (Gen 21: 33; 1 Sam 22: 6; 31: 13, in the R V ; but in A V , "grove," "tree"); Arab asal Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine It is a "very graceful tree, with long feathery branches and tufts closely clad with the minutest of leaves, and surmounted in spring with spikes of beautiful pink blosoms, which seem to envelop the whole tree in one gauzy sheet of colour" (Tristram's Nat Hist ); 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; Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic; short, succulent desert plant with deep root systems A common food for foragers; An Arabian species T; from a Hebrew word meaning to cleanse, so called from its abstersive qualities The Romans wreathed the brows of criminals with tamarisk The Arabs make cakes called manna of the hardened juice extracted from this tree; mannifera is the source of one kind of manna; The tamarisk [photo] is non-native plant species that was introduced to the Southwest in the early 1900s by the Department of Agriculture to control erosion along irrigation ditches It is an extremely prolific species and has now taken over the banks of all waterways in the southwest and has forced out the native plant species; A tamarisk is a bush or small tree which grows mainly around the Mediterranean and in Asia, and has pink or white flowers; A plant of the genus Tamarix, esp T gallica, the common tamarisk, a graceful evergreen shrub or small tree, with slender feathery branches and minute scale-like leaves, growing in sandy places in S Europe and W Asia, and now much planted by the seashore in the south of England See notes on herbs; They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes
tamarisk gerbil: a gerbil that is popular as a pet
false tamarisk: Eurasian shrub resembling the tamarisk
tamarisks: plural of tamarisk