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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. 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.