TAMARACK Definition & Meaning

tamarack

[ tam-uh-rak ]

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noun

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.
any of several related, very similar trees.
the wood of these trees.

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noun

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

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of tamarack¹

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

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of tamarack¹

C19: from Algonquian

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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.

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

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But for the most part, these traces were obliterated, with the hedges running wild and native trees—slippery elm and tamarack—outnumbering the quince and Japanese maple.

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He uses spruce, black walnut, bigleaf maples and tamaracks from Oregon and Washington.

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Joe Braeu told the story of a broom 40 feet high in a tamarack tree in the wilds of northern Minnesota.

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