tamarack

noun

tam·​a·​rack ˈta-mə-ˌrak How to pronounce tamarack (audio)
ˈtam-rak
1
: any of several American larches
especially : a larch (Larix laricina) of northern North America that inhabits usually moist or wet areas
2
: the wood of a tamarack

Examples of tamarack in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web At sunset, the collaborators gathered beneath a tamarack tree for a dinner of ingredients grown or raised on the land, including lamb and cactus. Brett Anderson Adam Riding, New York Times, 8 May 2023 At the time, my attention was on a carpet of yellow flowers highlighting a field of perpendicular black lines, the mast-like trunks of dead, burned tamarack pine. Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022 Its hummock was part of a wetland spiked with tamarack saplings and carpeted with wild cranberries. Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022 Stroll along an elevated boardwalk above a spruce-tamarack bog at Lake Bemidji State Park, which is also the northern trailhead for the 115-mile-long multiuse Paul Bunyan State Trail. Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2022 About 90% of the state's tamarack trees have been killed off in just the past five years. Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021 Instead of trekking into the forests of Canada, a birder can fly into the Duluth airport and within an hour be in the old-growth tamarack and black spruce bogs, which the owls favor. Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021 While getting some outdoor exercise, participants will see tamarack trees, a type of deciduous pine, floating on a mat of sphagnum moss, according to naturalist Stacy Iwanicki, who leads the walks. Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2020 They are made with tamarack interiors and have heat, electricity and Wi-Fi, as well as an outdoor food prep counter, fire ring and table. Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020

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Word History

Etymology

origin unknown

First Known Use

1805, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of tamarack was in 1805

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“Tamarack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tamarack. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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tamarack

noun
tam·​a·​rack ˈtam-(ə-)ˌrak How to pronounce tamarack (audio)
1
: any of several American larches
especially : one of the northern U.S. and Canada
2
: the wood of a tamarack

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