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tamarack (TAM-uh-rak) - n., any of several North American larches (genus Larix), especially L. laricina, usually inhabiting moist or wet areas; the wood of these trees.
Not to be confused with tamarind or tamarisk. Also called hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, and American larch, it is endemic to boggy areas through most of Canada and northeastern United States. Unlike most conifers, larches are deciduous and the needles turn bright yellow in autumn. As might be expected, this is an Americanism, first appearing in English around 1800, taken from Canadian French tamarac, origin uncertain but widely speculated to be of Algonquian origin, though no etymon has been identified.
#insert MontyPython.TheLarch.mp3
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---L.
tamarack (TAM-uh-rak) - n., any of several North American larches (genus Larix), especially L. laricina, usually inhabiting moist or wet areas; the wood of these trees.
Not to be confused with tamarind or tamarisk. Also called hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, and American larch, it is endemic to boggy areas through most of Canada and northeastern United States. Unlike most conifers, larches are deciduous and the needles turn bright yellow in autumn. As might be expected, this is an Americanism, first appearing in English around 1800, taken from Canadian French tamarac, origin uncertain but widely speculated to be of Algonquian origin, though no etymon has been identified.
#insert MontyPython.TheLarch.mp3
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
