tamarack

American  

[tam-uh-rak] / ˈtæm əˌræk /

noun

1. an American larch, Larix laricina, of the pine family, having a reddish-brown bark and crowded clusters of blue-green needles and yielding a useful timber.

2. any of several related, very similar trees.

3. the wood of these trees.

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tamarack British  

/ ˈtæməˌræk /

noun

1. any of several North American larches, esp Larix laricina, which has reddish-brown bark, bluish-green needle-like leaves, and shiny oval cones

2. the wood of any of these trees

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Etymology

Origin of tamarack

First recorded in 1795–1805, compare Canadian French tamarac; probably of Algonquian origin

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Example Sentences

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tamarack

At the time, my attention was on a carpet of yellow flowers highlighting a field of perpendicular black lines, the mast-like trunks of dead, burned tamarack pine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022

Wydeven heard none of the higher-pitched howls that would have indicated this wolf pack, invisible but audible amid miles of tamarack and black spruce, was now raising any young.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021

So Schmegelsky, 18, and McLeod, 19, are mostly probably stumbling through the wilds around the northern Manitoba town, amid swampland and thick forests of prickly black spruces and dense tamarack.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2019

A half hour passes in silence, and the two researchers give up on the waiting-for-bigfoot strategy - setting off instead through the dense woods toward a tamarack swamp.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2016

“Made her some sagebrush tea and some tamarack syrup.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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