samara

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  1. noun A dry, indehiscent, winged, often one-seeded fruit, as of the ash, elm, or maple. Also called key fruit.

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  • But on Samara, and a handful of other new private game reserves in the Eastern Cape, the goats are gone and the wild animals are returning, samara specialising in cheetah conservation.
  • Samara Azam, Advertising Director samara (at) hyphenmagazine. com —  Hyphen Blog
  • Note how the wing emerges from a maple samara at an almost imperceptible pitch from the heavy oval seed. —  RutlandHerald.com
  • Students Solve 60-Year-Old Design Dilemma Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted School of Engineering, +1-301-405-6501, cell: +1-804-398-8652, mcorley@umd. edu Clark School —  WN.com - Articles related to Maple Tree Seeds Inspire New Surveillance Technology
  • The smallest monocopter built by Ulrich to-date, with a maximum dimension of 9.5 cm and a wing equal in size to a natural samara. —  R&D Mag - News
 

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