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Samara in Pop Culture

Samara Morgan/Samara Osorio character in movie "The Ring"
Samara an Asari Justicar from the Mass Effect video games
Samara Cook character on TV's "Pretty Little Liars"
Samara a Frank Lloyd Wright building
The word "samara" has been used in English as the name of the winged fruit of the elm ash, or sycamore since the 16th century. Latin samara means "seed of the elm" from semen "seed."
Samara is also the Latin name of the River Somme and almost certainly, therefore, the name of a goddess associated with it.
A Samara is the winged the fruit of the maple tree often referred to as whirlybirds or helicopters in slang terms.