Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of coniferous trees with needle-shaped deciduous leaves; the larches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The genus of trees comrising the larches.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun larches
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Examples
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Romans affected the rose; the Greeks amaranthus and myrtle: that the funeral pyre consisted of sweet fuel, cypress, fir, larix, yew, and trees perpetually verdant, lay silent expressions of their surviving hopes.
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These larix stumps appear to be comparable in size to those at the Polar Urals site where the cutoff for modern sampling was about 10 cm.
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A competitive googling produced 755 hits for "hackmatack, larix" and only 342 for "hackmatack, populus," but that's not exactly a scientific way of deciding the matter.
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Lagerstroemia Indica land, handling larch larix species latania
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(_Pinus larix_, or Corsican pine, not larch) between Bocognano and Corte had recently been burned by accident when we passed by.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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(_Pinus larix_, or Corsican pine, not larch) between Bocognano and Corte had recently been burned by accident when we passed by.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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This tree produces a gum almost as white and firm as frankincense: But it is the _larix_
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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We have said nothing concerning the leaf of this tree, which much resembles those of the _larix_, but somewhat longer and closer set, erect and perpetually green, which those of the larch are not; but hanging down, drop-off, and desert the tree in
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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That, in strewing their tombs, the Romans affected the rose; the Greeks amaranthus and myrtle: that the funeral pyre consisted of sweet fuel, cypress, fir, larix, yew, and trees perpetually verdant, lay silent expressions of their surviving hopes.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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(_pinus larix_,) which loses its leaves in the fall.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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