Hammada

== Translingual == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic حَمَادَة (ḥamāda, “hamada”), the type of environment plants of this genus are found in. Coined by Russian (Soviet) botanist Modest Mikhailovich Ilyin in 1948. === Proper noun === Hammada f A taxonomic genus within the family Amaranthaceae – the hammadas; certain plants which grow in arid climates in the Middle East and Uzbekistan. ==== Descendants ==== → Arabic: (semantic loan, reborrowing) حَمَادَة (ḥamāda) → English: hammada === See also === Hammada (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Hammada on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Hammada on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons