different between saxaul vs saksaul

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Wikispecies

From Russian ???????? (saksaúl), from Kazakh ???????? (seksewil).

saxaul (plural saxauls)

Any of three species of the amaranth genus Haloxylon: Haloxylon ammodendron (the black saxaul), Haloxylon aphyllum, and Haloxylon persicum (the white saxaul).

saksaul (plural saksauls)

Alternative form of saxaul
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 844-5:
  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.

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