Like the plant, the insect also sometimes possesses travelling-apparatus, means of dissemination that allow large families to disperse quickly over the country, so that each member may have his place in the sun without injuring his neighbour; and these apparatus, these methods vie in ingenuity with the elm's samara, the dandelion-plume and the catapult of the squirting cucumber.
"The Life of the Spider"
J. Henri Fabre
Thence it is two days to the river samara, which is the commencement of the land of Persia.
"The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela"
Benjamin of Tudela
On the outskirts of a village near samara, in East Russia, a forester was one day attracted to a cabin by the resounding cries and groans that issued from it.
"Modern Saints and Seers"
Jean Finot