larch
UK/ˈlɑːtʃ//ˈlɑɹt͡ʃ/
larch noun: a coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles.
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Noun
larch (plural larches)
- A coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles.
- The Larch-tree, with us, groweth slowly, and to be found in few places; it hath a rugged bark, and boughts that branch in good order, with divers small yellowish bunched eminences, set thereon at several distances, from whence tufts of many small, long, and narrow smooth leaves do yearly come...1665, John Rea, Flora, London: J.G. Marriott, Book III, Chapter 20, pp. 235-236
- The Gummy Larch-Tree, and the Thapsos there,
Wound-wort and Maiden-weed, perfume the Air.1716, Nicholas Rowe (translator), The Ninth Book of Lucan in John Dryden, Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, Volume 6, p. 67
- Wood of the larch.
- The cart was of rough wood, without springs, like a big box fixed on long larch poles between two pairs of wheels. The larch poles did instead of springs, bending and creaking, as the cart moved over the forest track.1916, Arthur Ransome, “The Christening in the Village”, in Old Peter’s Russian Tales
- Synonyms:
- larchwood
Proper noun capitalized: Larch
Larch (plural Larchs)
- A surname from German.
larch meaning in Tagalog, Persian and Vietnamese
larch in Tagalog
- a coniferous tree
- alerses
larch in Persian
- a coniferous tree
- سیاهکاج siyâh-kâj
larch in Vietnamese
- a coniferous tree
- thông rụng lá
Examples of larch in a sentence
- No, that’s too spready—a larch tree, that’s Elizabeth; a larch tree just greening over.'1924, Radclyffe Hall, The Unlit Lamp, Chapter 5, Part 1:
- While the ravaging fires in Australia and Europe received wide media coverage, 1 million hectares of larch forests were wiped out on the Ta-hsing-an-ling mountain in north-eastern China (H.1993, Nengah Wirawan, “The Hazard of Fire”, in Harold Brookfield, Yvonne Byron, editors, South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The Search...
Synonyms of larch
Forms of larch
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | larches |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Larchs |
Origin of larch
From early modern German Larche, Lärche, from Middle High German larche, from Old High German larihha, from Proto-West Germanic *larikā, an early borrowing from Latin larix, from Ancient Greek λάριξ (lárix), itself possibly of Gaulish origin.
Borrowed from German Larch.
Words formed from larch
- alpine larch
- American larch
- Chinese larch
- Dahurian larch
- Daurian larch
- East Siberian larch
- European larch
- golden larch
- Himalayan larch
- Japanese larch
- larch agaric
- larch bark beetle
- larch bolete
- larchen
- larch knight
- larchlike
- larch pug
- larch turpentine
- larchwood
- lesser larch bark beetle
- Masters' larch
- Russian larch
- Siberian larch
- subalpine larch
- western larch
Phrases with larch
Words that rhyme with larch
Questions about larch
- What does larch mean?
- Larch means a coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles.
- What is larch in Tagalog?
- Larch in Tagalog is alerses. See Larch meaning in Tagalog.
- How do you use larch in a sentence?
- No, that’s too spready—a larch tree, that’s Elizabeth; a larch tree just greening over.'
- What part of speech is larch?
- Larch can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce larch?
- Larch is pronounced /ˈlɑːtʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of larch?
- The plural of larch is larches.
Words near larch in the dictionary
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