tamarack

tamarack
/tam"euh rak'/, n.
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.
[1795-1805, Amer.; cf. CanF tamarac; assumed to be of Algonquian orig.]

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Synonyms:
, , (Larix pendula or Americana)


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