samara, key fruit, key
(noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Samara
An oblast in Russia.
A city, the administrative center of Samara, Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population.
A tributary of Volga in Russia, which meets the Volga at the city of the same name.
A female given name
• (city): Kuybyshev (name from 1935 to 1991)
• Asmara, asrama
samara (plural samaras or samarae)
The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple
• (winged fruit): helicopter, polynose, whirligig, whirlybird
• Asmara, asrama
Source: Wiktionary
Sa*ma"ra ( or ), n. Etym: [L. samara, samera, the seed of the elm.] (Bot.)
Definition: A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 May 2025
(noun) (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
