Steppes vs Saksaul - What's the difference?
steppes | saksaul |
A leafless shrub with greenish branches which grows on the Asian steppes.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 844-5:
As nouns the difference between steppes and saksaul
is that steppes is plural of lang=en while saksaul is a leafless shrub with greenish branches which grows on the Asian steppes.saksaul
English
Alternative forms
* saxaulNoun
(en noun)- 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.