tamarack
Americannoun
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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.
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any of several related, very similar trees.
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the wood of these trees.
noun
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any of several North American larches, esp Larix laricina, which has reddish-brown bark, bluish-green needle-like leaves, and shiny oval cones
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the wood of any of these trees
Etymology
Origin of tamarack
First recorded in 1795–1805, compare Canadian French tamarac; probably of Algonquian origin
Vocabulary lists containing tamarack
Example Sentences
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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
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
Crust raises trees native to northern Minnesota like larch and white spruce that he harvested from tamarack bogs and the shores of Lake Superior.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2017
Photo C shows a forest of tamarack with yellow needles.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The larvae eventually drop to the ground and form cocoons in the peat of tamarack bogs or the duff under spruce or pines.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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