larches

Noun

larch (plural larches)

1. (countable) 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
2. (uncountable) 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

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