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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A deciduous North American larch tree (Larix laricina) having short needles borne on spur shoots.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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. It grows from 70 to 90 feet high, and yields a heavy, hard, and very strong timber, valued for many purposes, particularly for the upper knees of ships. See cut under larch.
  2. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix; the wood from such a tree

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See hackmatack, and larch.
  2. n. The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark

Etymologies

  1. Believed to derive from an Algonquian word. (Wiktionary)
  2. Canadian French tamarac, probably of Algonquian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. larch
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  4. hemlock
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  2. sycamore
  3. cowrie
  4. ponderosa
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  2. juniper
  3. bottlebrush
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  2. tumbleweed
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  1. tamarack-pine
  1. hackmatack

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  • hernesheir 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? Sep 20, 2009

  • bilby
    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'. Sep 20, 2009

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