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saksaul - What does it mean?

Definition of 'saksaul'

English

Alternative forms

* saxaul

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A leafless shrub with greenish branches which grows on the Asian steppes.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 844-5:
  • Oases, or distant smoky blurs of saksaul trees, appeared like moments of remission in lives of misfortune—rumored, hallucinated, prayed for, not always where they were supposed to be.