samara

¹

[ sam-er-uh, suh-mair-uh ]

noun

, Botany.

1. an indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as of the elm or maple.

Samara

²

[ suh-mahr-uh; Russian suh-mah-ruh ]

noun

1. a port in the SE Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.

Samara

¹

/ saˈmarə /

noun

1. a port in SW Russia, on the River Volga: centre of an important industrial complex; oil refining. Pop: 1 140 000 (2005 est) Former name (1935–91)KuibyshevKuybyshev

samara

²

/ səˈmɑːrə; ˈsæmərə /

noun

1. a dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit with a winglike extension to aid dispersal: occurs in the ash, maple, etc Also calledkey fruit

samara

/ săm′ər-ə /

1. An achene (a dry, one-seeded fruit) in which the pericarp is modified into a winglike structure adapted for airborne dispersal. The seeds of the ash, elm, and maple are contained in samaras.

Word History and Origins

Origin of samara¹

1570–80; < New Latin; Latin samara, samera elm seed

Word History and Origins

Origin of samara¹

C16: from New Latin, from Latin: seed of an elm

Example Sentences

That was what happened to Konstantin Bogoyavlensky, a turn-of-the-century engineer who designed the first known hydropower station project on the Volga, in the Samara region, a little downstream from Ulyanovsk, in 1910.

From MIT Technology Review

The fact that it’s Falere who comes up with the loophole solution to keep Samara alive not only makes the Justicar code look silly, it makes Samara look silly for not thinking of it herself.

From Washington Post

It also has a Backyard group within its Samara experimental product team that is developing homes.

From Fortune

Despite the long wait, Samara Herard says she will not give up.

From The Daily Beast

Samara, an aspiring writer, enjoys soccer, acting, and considers herself a fairy-tale scholar.

From The Daily Beast

Oleace, having imperfect flowers and a seed-vessel prolonged into a thin wing at the apex (called a samara).

From Project Gutenberg

I now possess six thousand 'desyatins' of land in the government of Samara, and three hundred horses--what then?

From Project Gutenberg

Regaining the main road, Major Burnaby and his companion sped on towards Samara.

From Project Gutenberg

Willdenow1855 indicates it at Samara, in the south-east of Russia; but more recent authors do not confirm this.

From Project Gutenberg

Fruit single-winged at one end (samara or key-fruit), in large clusters; ripe in autumn.

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