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tamarack

tamarack noun: any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.

tamarack: any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix
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Noun

tamarack (countable and uncountable, plural tamaracks)

  1. Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
    • The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 36
    • The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 116
    1. especially, Larix laricina
  2. Wood from such a tree.

tamarack meaning in Tamil

tamarack in Tamil

அமெரிக்க ஊசியிலை மரவகை

Synonyms of tamarack

All synonyms of tamarack

Forms of tamarack

pluraltamaracks

Origin of tamarack

From Canadian French tamarac, believed to derive from an Algonquian word. In European languages there was contamination between tacamahac, from Nahuatl, and various Algonquian words containing the final Proto-Algonquian *-a·xkw- (“hardwood or deciduous tree”), including the sources of tamarack and hackmatack, as was already recognized by Chamberlain 1902. This makes the precise Algonquian words involved difficult to recover.

Questions about tamarack

What does tamarack mean?
Tamarack means any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
What is tamarack in Tamil?
Tamarack in Tamil is அமெரிக்க ஊசியிலை மரவகை. See Tamarack meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tamarack?
Tamarack is a noun.
What is the plural of tamarack?
The plural of tamarack is tamaracks.

Words near tamarack in the dictionary

  1. Tamaoyan
  2. tamapin
  3. Tamar
  4. tamara
  5. Tamarac
  6. tamarack
  7. tamaracks
  8. Tamarah
  9. Tamarama
  10. tamarao
  11. tamaraos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tamarack (page history and authors); tamarack (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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