noun. Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of the genus Tamarix, native to Africa and Eurasia and widely naturalized in western North America, having small scalelike leaves and racemes of small pinkish flowers and usually growing in saline soil.

noun. A plant of the genus Tamarix: sometimes called flowering cypress.

noun. Any plant of the order Tamariscincæ.

noun. 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.

noun. an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.

noun. Any of several shrubs, of the genus Tamarix, native to the Mediterranean. Introduced into the United States as an ornamental plant, it is now a weed.

noun. any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers; of mostly coastal areas with saline soil

"Lord as on another occasion (Nu 11: 31). and in the morning ... a small round thing ... manna -- There is a gum of the same name distilled in this desert region from the tamarisk, which is much prized by the natives, and preserved carefully by those who gather it."

german tamarisk  indian tamarisk  oriental tamarisk  

bush  shrub  

alder  arbutus  azalea  blackthorn  cornel  

salt cedar