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samara
/ˈsæmərə/
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What does samara mean?
noun
- The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.
proper noun
- An oblast of Russia.
- A city, the administrative center of Samara Oblast, Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- A tributary of the Volga in Russia, which meets the Volga at the city of the same name.
- A female given name.
- A tributary of the Dnieper in Ukraine.
- A village in Mykolaivka settlement hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
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Like the plant, the insect also sometimes possesses travelling-apparatus, means of dissemination that allow large families to disperse quickly over the country, so that each member may have his place in the sun without injuring his neighbour; and these apparatus, these methods vie in ingenuity with the elm's samara, the dandelion-plume and the catapult of the squirting cucumber.