Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dry, indehiscent, winged one-seeded or two-seeded fruit, as of an ash, elm, or maple.
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- noun The
winged indehiscent fruit oftrees such as theash ,elm ormaple
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design. 2 hours agoAdded by: samara.
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Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design. 2 hours agoAdded by: samara.
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Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design. 2 hours agoAdded by: samara.
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Perhaps if more boys and girls could see what boobs are really about, this debate could end for the next generation. samara Said,
You Got A Problem With My Boobies, PUNK? | Her Bad Mother 2008
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For more information on Samara House, please visit www. samara-house.org.
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The root of samara is the automatically arising unawareness with which we grasp at things to exist in a completely erroneous way.
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A single seeds is contained within each samara, which you can see as the bump in the picture.
Urban Wildlife Watch: Ash Trees DNLee 2008
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A single seeds is contained within each samara, which you can see as the bump in the picture.
Archive 2008-10-01 DNLee 2008
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I don't care about the spammy incoherence, I for one vote that we keep samara as a pet.
Samara tellurian 2007
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The soldiers are accused of killing three Iraqi men north of Baghdad outside samara last May.
trivet commented on the word samara
maple seed, aka: helicopter, whirlygig, key.
April 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word samara
When we were kids, my father called them Nose Stickers (for their ability, when peeled open, to adhere nicely to any available nose). :-)
April 10, 2007
trivet commented on the word samara
Rhinoceros horns!
April 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word samara
HAHA! Teeny, tiny little ones, that is. :-)
April 10, 2007
mollusque commented on the word samara
Maple samaras are resofincular. (I knew there had to be something that was described by that word).
November 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word samara
Wow! A real word for Nose Stickers! :-)
November 13, 2007
bilby commented on the word samara
Also a city in central Russia.
December 16, 2007