tamarack
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
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- 8
Definition of tamarack
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)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.”
“The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.”
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noun
-
(countable, uncountable)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.”
“The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.”
- (countable, uncountable)Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
- (countable, uncountable)Wood from such a tree.
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Etymology
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.
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