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- noun Plural form of
larch .
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Examples
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Without the least reflection I answered, by making sledges of the larches, which is an expedient that I think would suggest instantly itself to nineteen men in twenty.
A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836
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Having spent considerable time in New England, I was always aware of those conifers commonly referred to as "larches", and I always thought a hackmatack tree was some sort of larch, hackmatack being a corruption of a Wampanoag or Massachusett word.
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The samples of his verse that Mr. Hollinghurst invents are perfectly pitched to be good but not great: "The spinney where the lisping larches / Kiss overhead in silver arches / And in their shadows lovers too / Might kiss and tell their secrets through," is a typical jingling passage.
The (Private) Lives of the Poets Adam Kirsch 2011
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The shrubbery consisted of several young larches, who looked undecided whether to live or die. . .
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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The wood doesn't contain gooey pitch like pines, firs, spruces and larches and so it doesn't burn easily.
Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests 2010
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The larches stood huddled together, talking quietly in the evening breeze with clicks and creaks and rustling sighs.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The larches and alders were a deeper green, because it was now midsummer, not late spring.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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I found the hill, finally, by spotting the stand of young larches I remembered at the base.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The average age of larch trees growing in the south of the study area is less than that of northern larches.
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Where the distributions of two wind-pollinated tree species of the same genus (e.g., spruce, pine, larches) approach each other or overlap, the trees can interbreed and form hybrid offspring.
Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic 2009
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