Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deciduous North American larch (Larix laricina) of moist soil, having short needlelike leaves that turn yellow in the fall.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The black or American larch, or hackmatack, Larix Americana, found in moist uplands in British America, and of less size massed in cool swamps in the northern United States.
- noun The abundant black or ridge-pole pine, Pinus Murrayana, of the Sierras and dry gravelly interior regions of western North America. The allied Pinus contorta, or scrub-pine, of the coast may be also included under the name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (
Larix occidentalis ). Seehackmatack , andlarch . - noun The black pine (
Pinus Murrayana ) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
North American larches , of the genusLarix ; thewood from such a tree
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This hanging lichen is most often found in tamarack and spruce thickets but can adhere to the limbs of deciduous trees in deeply shaded areas.
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What Ware had said about the hills of his youth, the woods, the word tamarack that he had dropped carelessly, touched chords of memory as lightly as a breeze vibrates a wind harp.
A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906
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The tamarack is very common about the marshy grounds of this county, attaining its full height in our neighborhood.
Rural Hours 1887
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In the Tahoe region it is invariably called a tamarack or tamarack pine.
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This morning I collected a handful of larch (also known as tamarack) needles when I was out walking.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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Far back when I went zig-zagging through tamarack pastures you were my genius, you my cast-iron Viking, my helmed lion-heart king in prison.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Distant Celestial Fires Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Instead they threw in their hat with France (their traditional enemy since the days of William the conqueror) and Tsarist Russia (the least free and most corrupt country in Europe). tamarack jack
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I love when the tamarack (aka larch) trees start to green up.
Compost, Anyone? aka TBTAM 2008
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In boreal Alaska, a larch sawfly outbreak killed most of the larger and older tamarack (Larix laricina) trees during a warm period in the decade of the 1990s, and aspen leaf miner (Phyllocnistis populiella) appeared at outbreak levels (142,000 ha) by 2003 [28].
Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic 2009
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With the help of our father, we built a tree house in the nearby tamarack trees; a rope made the perfect vine for swinging.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom Jack Canfield 2009
bilby commented on the word tamarack
A ball of fire shoots through the tamarack
In scarlet splendor, on voluptuous wings;
Delirious joy the pyrotechnist brings,
Who marks for us high summer’s almanac.
- Joel Benton, 'The Scarlet Tanager'.
September 20, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word tamarack
Oh, to see the tamaracks all turn to yellow like maple trees in the fall! Still, I wonder if Scarlet Tanagers ever visit boreal forests where tamaracks dwell. A case of poetic license?
September 20, 2009