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samara

/ˈsæmərə/

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What does samara mean?

noun

  1. The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.

proper noun

  1. An oblast of Russia.
  2. A city, the administrative center of Samara Oblast, Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population.
More meanings (4)

proper noun

  1. A tributary of the Volga in Russia, which meets the Volga at the city of the same name.
  2. A female given name.
  3. A tributary of the Dnieper in Ukraine.
  4. A village in Mykolaivka settlement hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈsæmərə/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/səˈmɛrə/
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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.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the SpiderTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #1887