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hackmatacks

hackmatacks is the plural of hackmatack.

Meaning of hackmatack

Noun

hackmatack (plural hackmatacks)

  1. A larch, a tree of the species Larix laricina.
    • The hackmatack is remarkable for having a principal root, which sometimes equals in size the trunk to which it belongs.1867, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1866, page 483
    Synonyms:
    tamarack, American larch, weeping hemlock, black larch, tamarak, tacamahac
  2. A balsam poplar, a tree of the species Populus balsamifera.

Questions about hackmatacks

What is hackmatacks the plural of?
Hackmatacks is the plural of hackmatack.

Words near hackmatacks in the dictionary

  1. hackmanites
  2. Hackmann
  3. Hackmanns
  4. Hackmans
  5. hackmatack
  6. hackmatacks
  7. hackmen
  8. hackney
  9. Hackney Bottom
  10. hackney cab
  11. hackney cabs

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