Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Indian tamarisk, Tamarix Indica, a shrub or small tree found throughout India in the marshes of rivers and along the sea-coast. Its wood is used principally as fuel and the smaller twigs are used for thatching and basketry.
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Examples
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Kinchinjhow, extending for four or five miles east and west; its perpendicular sides studded with the immense icicles, which are said to have obtained for it the name of "jhow," -- the "bearded" Kinchin.
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Externally it was as usual chiefly composed of the withered stems of the little asteraceous plant, interwoven with a few jhow-shoots (_Tamarix dioica_) and a little tow-like fibre of the putsan (_Hibiscus cannabinus_), while
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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hernesheir commented on the word jhow
Another one for the tree and shrub listers.
December 27, 2012