larch
Americannoun
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any coniferous tree of the genus Larix, yielding a tough durable wood.
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the wood of such a tree.
noun
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any coniferous tree of the genus Larix, having deciduous needle-like leaves and egg-shaped cones: family Pinaceae
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the wood of any of these trees
Other Word Forms
- larcher adjective
Etymology
Origin of larch
1540–50; earlier larche < Middle High German ≪ Latin laric- (stem of larix ) larch
Example Sentences
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A Pacific Northwest forest planted with Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock and larch underplanted with evergreen huckleberry, salal and ferns transitions to an open woodland of native dogwood trees, red twig dogwood and flowering red currant.
From Seattle Times • May 25, 2024
Mr. Haugen has worked for more than half of his 52 years as a fire lookout, scanning the larch and pine wilderness from a one-room mountaintop cabin.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2023
Even the larch wood planks of their coffins must have been imported to the treeless desert region from hundreds of kilometers away.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 13, 2023
The European larch and the tamarack are examples of deciduous conifers.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
After digging out three smoldering logs, he carried them into a nearby larch forest, scraped away the snow from the ground, found some kindling, and managed to start a campfire.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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