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Definition of Samara

1. Noun. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.

Definition of Samara

1. n. A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.

Definition of Samara

1. Proper noun. A city in Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population. ¹

2. Noun. The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Samara

1. a dry, one-seeded fruit [n -S]

Medical Definition of Samara

1. A dry, indehiscent fruit with its wall expanded into a wing. (14 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Samara

Literary usage of Samara

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"samara, a government of southeastern Russia, on the left bank of the lower ... The samara Hills, on the right bank of the river samara ; the Kinel Hills; ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"samara, a government of south-eastern Russia, on the left bank of the lower ... The samara Hills, on the right bank of the river samara ; the Kinel Hills ..."

3. The Nineteenth Century (1892)
"Matters are rather more hopeful just now, because the Petersburg Committee i> paying serious attention to the affairs in samara, and will probably give us ..."

4. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"626) the wing surrounds the body of the pericarp ; and the Maple fruit is a double samara or pair of such fruits, cones spicuously winged from the apex. ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The river Volga forms its W. frontier, and it is drained by the samara, ... A city, capital of the government, at the confluence of the samara with the ..."

6. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Wings of the samara markedly decurrent on the sides of the body. samara with a spatulate wing. Leaves, twigs and panicles glabrous or essentially so. 3. f. ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"samara, a government of southeastern Russia, on the left bank of the lower ... The samara Hills, on the right bank of the river samara ; the Kinel Hills; ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"samara, a government of south-eastern Russia, on the left bank of the lower ... The samara Hills, on the right bank of the river samara ; the Kinel Hills ..."

9. The Nineteenth Century (1892)
"Matters are rather more hopeful just now, because the Petersburg Committee i> paying serious attention to the affairs in samara, and will probably give us ..."

10. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"626) the wing surrounds the body of the pericarp ; and the Maple fruit is a double samara or pair of such fruits, cones spicuously winged from the apex. ..."

11. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The river Volga forms its W. frontier, and it is drained by the samara, ... A city, capital of the government, at the confluence of the samara with the ..."

12. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Wings of the samara markedly decurrent on the sides of the body. samara with a spatulate wing. Leaves, twigs and panicles glabrous or essentially so. 3. f. ..."

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