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
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Tamarisk distribution, they found, is unlikely to be affected by climate change.
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Flowering pomegranate trees, oleander and tamarisk make spring a magical time.
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At the other entrance, the dusty pink blooms of tamarisk trees greet visitors.
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At day's end, we wandered along a dry creek next to tamarisk-shaded campsites.
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One tamarisk produces 500,000 seeds a year, each germinating within 24 hours.
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It can detect big changes like tamarisk defoliation on an even smaller scale.
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After an environmental assessment, APHIS approved them for tamarisk control.
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Widespread defoliation of tamarisk in the area was noted during summer 2007.
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There are several ways to deal with pest populations of tamarisk in the United States.
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- 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
- The genus Tamarix (tamarisk, salt cedar) comprises about 50-60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa. The generic name originated in Latin and may have referred to the Tamaris River in Hispania Tarraconensis (Spain).
- Pink is a pale red color. The use of the word for the color we know today as pink was first recorded in the late 17th century.
- Tamarisk is the home of Charles, Prince of Wales on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. Most of the rural portions of the Isles of Scilly are owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, although the main town was sold to its inhabitants by the royal family in 1949.
- Tamarisk is the name of a neighborhood in the city of East Lansing, Michigan. It was constructed during the 1950s. Tamarisk's current population is approximately 350.
- 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
- A plant of the genus Tamarix, esp. T. gallica, the common tamarisk, a graceful evergreen shrub or small tree, with slender feathery branches and minute scale-like leaves, growing in sandy places in S. Europe and W. Asia, and now much planted by the seashore in the south of England. ...
- A shrub especially adapted to warm arid climates. In Egypt it was considered to possess great occult virtues. "Many of the temples were surrounded with such trees, preeminently one at Philae, sacred among the sacred, as the body of Osiris was supposed to lie buried under it" (TG 318).
- Heb. 'eshel (Gen., xxi, 33: "grove"; I Kings, xxii, 6; xxxi, 13: D. V. "wood", A. V. "tree"), Arab. athl, a tree of which eight or nine species grow in Palestine.
