samara

New Latin, from Latin samara, from Gaulish.

samara (plural samaras or samarae)

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

• (winged fruit): helicopter, polynose, whirligig, whirlybird

• Asmara, asrama

From Latin samara, from Gaulish.

samara f (plural samare)

1. (of botany) samara

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

From Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”).

samara f (genitive samarae); first declension

1. (of botany) samara

First declension.

• samara in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• samara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• samara in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• samara in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly