It is a type of indehiscent nut. Its seed looks like a propeller which facilitates its anemophilous or anemocoria spraying (by wind currents). The term is also used as a woman's name. It has variants Samara, Somara and Samaria. It means the protégé of God and is of Biblical origin.
SÁMARA dried fruit in a flattened form, typical of ash and elm, which at one end has the seeds while at the other a flat surface is formed that, helped by the wind, rotates like a propeller of a helicopter, which allows it to spread.