Tamarack Definition

tămə-răk
noun
An American larch tree (Larix laricina), usually found in swamps.
Webster's New World
The wood of this tree.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • American larch
  • Larix laricina
  • black larch

Other Word Forms of Tamarack

Noun

Singular:
tamarack
Plural:
tamaracks

Origin of Tamarack

  • In the 19th century, some authorities questioned if tacamahac, tamarack, and hackmatack could be cognate to one another, perhaps all corruptions of one term, but such cognancy is unlikely.

    From Wiktionary

  • Canadian French tamarac probably of Algonquian origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Believed to derive from an Algonquian word.

    From Wiktionary

Tamarack Sentence Examples

  • Beech, black walnut, butternut, chestnut, catalpa, hemlock and tamarack trees are also common.

  • Three other shafts of the Tamarack Company, and three of the neighbouring Calumet and Hecla mine, have depths of between 4000 and 5000 ft.

  • More than one-half of the product is yellow pine and the remainder is principally red fir and tamarack.

  • Plantations have been made in America with an economic view, the tree growing much faster, and producing good timber at an earlier age than the native hackmatack (or tamarack), while the wood is less ponderous, and therefore more generally applicable.

  • In the northern part of the state the great pine belt stretches from the head of Lake Superior westward to the confines of the Red River Valley, while along the north border and in the north-east the forest growth is almost exclusively tamarack and dwarf pine.

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Words Starting With

TTATAM

Words Ending With

KCKACK

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