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How to use larch in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Larch means a coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles. Example: “When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.”

Examples of larch by meaning

nounA coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles.

  • 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
  • Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273
  • 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...

nounWood 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.1916, Arthur Ransome, “The Christening in the Village”, in Old Peter’s Russian Tales

More sentences with larch

  • When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.From the entry plumelet
  • This is not to say that the larch are gluttons, greedsome water scavengers totally out of control.2013, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Tim Folger, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013. From the entry greedsome
  • Violin rosin is a natural gum obtained from conifers such as larch that produce turpentine.1998, Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 284. From the entry rosin
  • His psalms were sung to the tissing larch, his hymns to the purple heath.1962, R F Delderfield, The Unjust Skies (also 1980 Diana), Afterglow. From the entry tiss
  • The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998. From the entry laburnum
  • This may be because with warmer temperatures, the budmoth larvae develop sooner, before their food source, the larch needles, becomes available.2007 January 23, Henry Fountain, “A Bird’s-Eye View of Ski Trails’ Perils”, in New York Times. From the entry budmoth
  • Larch was ingenuously amazed, while Joolby—to Joolby, wrapped in an imperforable armour of fatalistic certitude, it could be nothing but a passing trial.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry imperforable
  • The larch, looking like a scrawny spruce or fir, is unusual for a conifer: it deciduates in the fall , the needles turning yellow before they drop.2007, Jerome Malitz, Susan Malitz, Acadia National Park Dayhiker's Guide: Maine's Coastal Gem, page 9. From the entry deciduate

Meaning of larch

  1. noun A coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles.
  2. noun Wood of the larch.

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Questions about larch in a sentence

How do you use larch in a sentence?
Larch is used as a noun. For example: “When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.”
What is a short sentence with larch?
“When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.”
What does larch mean?
Larch means a coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles.

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