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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

tamariscus

, also

tamarix

tamarice

, Skr.

tamāla

tamālaka

, 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.

Noun.

A tree or shrub of the genus Tamarix, of several species.