Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tamarisk"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
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.).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tamarisk \Tam"a*risk\, n. [L. tamariscus, also tamarix,
tamarice, Skr. tam[=a]la, tam[=a]laka, a tree with a very
dark bark; cf. tamas darkness: cf. F. tamarisc, tamarix,
tamaris.] (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 ({T.
mannifera}) is the source of one kind of manna.
{Tamarisk salt tree}, an East Indian tree ({Tamarix
orientalis}) which produces an incrustation of salt.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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
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