tamarack

[ tam-uh-rak ]

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.

tamarack

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tamarack¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tamarack¹

C19: from Algonquian

Example Sentences

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

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

From Literature

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.

From Literature

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

From Washington Times

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

From Washington Times