samaras

Thayer says the small green seeds, called samaras, need to be eaten before their edges start turning brown.

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Some popular North Indian dishes are samaras, which is a triangular pastry filled with spices and vegetables.

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Maple seeds, called samaras, develop in pairs, with separate wings sticking out in opposite directions.

RutlandHerald.com 2008

The papery fruits (actually winged seeds or samaras) contain one to two seeds each.

Chapter 7 1983

Then autumn sends a wind in the treetops; twig after twig emerges from the ramifications of foliage; the little birch discards her last raiment, and stands erect in essential beauty with every graceful branch delicately outlined on the sky; the ash looks as fine as maidenhair with its intricate traceries interspersed with brown samaras.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

Among the pale green elm samaras the blackbird sits alone, and out of his long brooding weaves a strong enchantment.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

The winged samaras of the ash and the box elder are other modifications of the same principle.

Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

Edward looked at the woods across the batch, and wondered why the young fresh green of the larches and the elm samaras was so sad, and why the cry of a sheep from an upper slope was so forlorn.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

The samaras, or keys, of the elm, formed of a broad, light fan with the seed cased in its centre; those of the maple, joined in pairs and resembling the unfurled wings of a bird; those of the ash, carved like the blade of an oar, perform the most distant journeys when driven before the storm.

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

He strips handfuls of samaras off a low-hanging branch and starts munching.

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