: a dry indehiscent usually one-seeded winged fruit (as of an ash or elm tree)
called alsokey
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Recent Examples on the WebTree of heaven seed clusters hang down, each seed inside a flat samara like a small disc, that dries to brown-gray in winter.—Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 31 Oct. 2019
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