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  • noun Plural form of larch.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    languagehat.com: HACKMATACK. 2005

  • 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

  • The shrubbery consisted of several young larches, who looked undecided whether to live or die. . .

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • 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

  • The larches stood huddled together, talking quietly in the evening breeze with clicks and creaks and rustling sighs.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • The larches and alders were a deeper green, because it was now midsummer, not late spring.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • I found the hill, finally, by spotting the stand of young larches I remembered at the base.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • The average age of larch trees growing in the south of the study area is less than that of northern larches.

    Direct climate effects on tree growth in the Arctic 2009

  • 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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