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Tamariani

Tamariani (თამარიანი) is an Old Georgian panegyric work attributed to the poet Chakhrukhadze, praising Queen Tamar of Georgia during her reign in the early 1200s.

Tamaricaceae

Tamaricaceae, the tamarix family, is a Caryophyllales family of halophytic shrubs and small trees with scale-like leaves and capsular fruit. Four accepted genera, Myricaria, Myrtama, Reaumuria, and Tamarix; sister to Frankeniaceae; Tamarix has about 70 species.

Tamarillo

Tamarillo (Solanum betaceum, syn. Cyphomandra betacea), or tree tomato, an Andean Solanaceae fruit tree grown in New Zealand, Colombia, and Ecuador; egg-shaped tangy fruit, frost-sensitive, virus-prone, named in New Zealand in 1967.

Tamarind

Tamarind (Tamarindus indica, Arabic tamr hindi, "Indian date") is a Fabaceae tree native to tropical Africa and Madagascar, grown tropically for acidic pod pulp used in curries, drinks, and confectionery; India is the largest producer.

Tamarind seed polysaccharide

Tamarind seed polysaccharide (TSP, tamarind gum, tamarind xyloglucan) is a galactoxyloglucan hydrocolloid from Tamarindus indica seeds, GRAS (GRN 503, 2014), used as thickener, stabilizer, and mucoadhesive ophthalmic excipient.

Tamarix

Tamarix (tamarisk, saltcedar) is a genus of salt-tolerant shrubs and small trees in Tamaricaceae, native from Africa and the Mediterranean to Asia, with scale-like salt-secreting leaves; several species are invasive riparian weeds in the western United States.

Tamarix gallica

Tamarix gallica (French tamarisk), Mediterranean-Sahara shrub or tree of Tamaricaceae with salt-excreting scale-like leaves; salt-tolerant and arsenic-tolerant halophyte, ornamental and windbreak, invasive in California and listed as a noxious weed.

Tamas Farago

Tamas Farago (Faragó Tamás, born 1952, Budapest), nicknamed Tonó, Hungarian water polo great: 1976 Olympic gold and top scorer with 22 goals, 1972 silver, 1980 bronze, later women's team 2005 world-champion coach.

Tamás Freund

Tamás F. Freund is a Hungarian neurobiologist known for his work on hippocampal interneurons and endocannabinoid signaling, who became president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Tamás Gábor

Tamás Gábor (Gábor Tamás, 1932–2007), Hungarian épée fencer of Vörös Meteor; gold in team épée at Tokyo 1964, Hungary's first Olympic épée title; six world medals, later national coach and Olympic referee.

Tamas Kasas

Tamás Kásás is a retired Hungarian water polo player, born in Budapest in 1976, who won three consecutive Olympic gold medals and competed at five Olympic Games from 1996 to 2012.

Tamas Kenderesi

Tamas Kenderesi (Kenderesi Tamás), Hungarian butterfly swimmer born 1996 in Bonyhád; 200 m butterfly bronze at Rio 2016, Youth Olympic gold 2014, fourth at Tokyo 2020; banned four years from 2023 in an Athlete Biological Passport doping case.

Tamás Kiss (Hungarian molecular biologist)

Tamás Kiss is a Hungarian molecular biologist at the LBME in Toulouse, France, known for showing that small nucleolar RNAs direct chemical modification of other RNAs.

Tamas L. Horvath

Tamas L. Horvath is a Hungarian-trained neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine, chair of Comparative Medicine, known for work on ghrelin, hypothalamic mitochondria, and fertility, and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Tamas Lorincz

Tamas Lorincz (Tamás Lőrincz), Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1986 in Cegléd; Olympic gold at 77 kg (Tokyo 2020) and silver at 66 kg (London 2012), 2019 world champion, four-time European champion, brother of Viktor Lőrincz, later Hungarian Wrestling Federation president.

Tamas Molnar

Tamás Molnar (born 1975 in Szeged) is a Hungarian former water polo center who won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2000, 2004, and 2008.

Tamás Sulyok

Tamás Sulyok, Hungarian jurist and President of Hungary since 5 March 2024; former Constitutional Court president (2016–2024); elected 26 February 2024, 134–5, after Katalin Novák's pardon-scandal resignation.

Tamas Varga

Tamás Varga (born 1975) is a Hungarian water polo player, two-time Olympic gold medalist (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008) and 2003 world champion, also a 2012 Olympian.

Tamás Vicsek

Tamás Vicsek, born in Budapest in 1948, is a Hungarian statistical and biological physicist known for the Vicsek model of self-driven particles and the 2020 Lars Onsager Prize.

Tamasha (तमाशा) (2015 film)

Tamasha (तमाशा) is Imtiaz Ali's 2015 Hindi romantic drama starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone as Ved and Tara, strangers who meet in Corsica without revealing identities and reunite in Delhi; music by A.R. Rahman, a box office flop that later gained a cult following.

Tamashima power station

Tamashima power station (玉島発電所) is a 1,200,000 kW oil- and LNG-fired thermal power station in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, whose three units began operating between 1971 and 1974.

Tamasin Day-Lewis

Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953, Greenwich, London) is a British food writer, chef, and former documentary filmmaker; daughter of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, sister of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, author of 12 cookery books and Telegraph food columnist.

Tamaskan Dog

Tamaskan Dog: wolf-looking domestic breed founded 2006 from Utonagan/Northern Inuit lines and Finnish Polar Speed huskies; TDR registry, ARBA recognition 2013, ~3.68% wolf ancestry found in 2025 study.

Tamassos

Tamassos, also Tamasos, was an ancient city-kingdom of Cyprus at modern Politiko in the Troodos foothills, founded around the 8th century BC and wealthy from copper mining.

Tamassos bilinguals

The Tamassos bilinguals are two 4th-century BC stone pedestals found at Tamassos, Cyprus, each bearing the same dedication to Resheph, equated with Apollo, in Phoenician and in Cypriot syllabic Greek.

Tāmati Wāka Nene

Tāmati Wāka Nene was a Ngāpuhi chief of Hokianga, New Zealand, an early signer of the Treaty of Waitangi and a British ally in the Northern War.

Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas, a northeastern Mexican state bordering Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, capital Ciudad Victoria, largest city Reynosa; 43 municipalities, 80,249 km², top national road and rail trade flow with the US, formerly Nuevo Santander.

Tamaulipas Constituciones Oil and Gas Field

Tamaulipas Constituciones is an onshore heavy crude oil and natural gas field in Tamaulipas, Mexico, operated by Pemex, with 67.9 million barrels of proved reserves in 2022.

Tamayo Perry

Tamayo Perry (1975–2024), Oahu pro surfer, Honolulu Ocean Safety lifeguard, and actor in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Blue Crush; Pipeline trials winner killed in a June 23, 2024 shark attack off Malaekahana, Oahu.

Tamaz Gamkrelidze

Tamaz Gamkrelidze (თამაზ გამყრელიძე) was a Georgian linguist who proposed the glottalic theory with Vyacheslav Ivanov and led the Georgian Academy of Sciences from 2005 to 2013.