tamarisk
/tam-uh-risk/US // ˈtæm ə rɪsk //UK // (ˈtæmərɪsk) //
柽柳,柽柳树,紫荆花,胡桃夹子
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.
- : a shrub or small tree, Tamarix chinensis, of Eurasia, having scalelike leaves and clusters of pink flowers, naturalized in the southwestern U.S., where it has become a troublesome weed.
Examples
He led across the Kuweik, through the orchards—dim and still, until at a tamarisk bush he halted.
He shot a man seven years ago—one of Perucca's men, of course, who was creeping up through the tamarisk trees.
That monument, surrounded by tamarisk bushes, above which its summit rises, bears upon it a memorial figure by Flaxman.
The tamarisk appears afterwards to have given the idea of a subdivision of leaf more pure and quaint than that of the acanthus.
The soft crack of a duck-gun came to their ears from far off among the tamarisk bushes beside the green-grey waters.
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