noun
- plural of samara; winged fruits that spin as they fall, produced by trees such as maples and elms
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The maple tree dropped hundreds of samaras in the autumn wind.
- Children love to throw samaras in the air and watch them spin down.
- Samaras help trees spread their seeds over a wide area.
- The elm’s samaras covered the sidewalk after the storm.
- We collected different types of samaras for our nature project.
- The spinning motion of samaras allows them to travel far from the parent tree.