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Definition of Tamarix
1. Noun. Genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Tamaricaceae, Tamaricaceae, Tamarisk Family
Member holonyms: Tamarisk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamarix
Literary usage of Tamarix
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"tamarix Gallica, Linne.* South Europe, North and tropical Africa, ... tamarix
Germanica, Linne. Europe and "West Asia, ascending to 15000 feet in the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"It is sometimes found altered to chrysocolla. tamarix ... (Berthe lot, Compt.
rend. liii. 583.) tamarix. From the flowers of the French tamarisk ( tamarix ..."
3. The Plants of the Bible by John Hutton Balfour (1885)
"tamarix oriental-is, the Eastern tamarisk-tree. ... grows in the arid sands of
the Dead Sea; and tamarix gallica is also found near the shores of Palestine. ..."
4. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"THIS flexible shrub is the Mup/xij of the Greeks, and the Myrica and tamarix of
the Latins. The latter name is supposed to have been derived from the Hebrew ..."
5. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"tamarix. Natural order, Succulenta. ... of the Greeks, and the Myrica and tamarix
of the Latins. The latter name is supposed to have been derived from the ..."
6. Our Woodland Trees by Francis George Heath (1878)
"tamarix gallica. PLATE 7, FIG. 3. !;ROWING almost exclusively in the south of
England, and rarely even there exceeding the size of a shrub ten feet in ..."
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