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 tam·a·risk /ˈtæməˌrɪsk/
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 Tam·a·risk n.  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.
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 tamarisk
      n : 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

 Tamarisk
    Heb. 'eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in
    A.V., "grove," "tree"); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree
    are found in Palestine. It is a "very graceful tree, with long
    feathery branches and tufts closely clad with the minutest of
    leaves, and surmounted in spring with spikes of beautiful pink
    blosoms, which seem to envelop the whole tree in one gauzy sheet
    of colour" (Tristram's Nat. Hist.).