tamarack
English
Etymology
From Canadian French tamarac, believed to derive from an Algonquian word.[1]
In the 19th century, some authorities questioned if tacamahac, tamarack, and hackmatack could be cognate to one another, perhaps all corruptions of one term, but such cognacy is unlikely.[2]
Noun
tamarack (countable and uncountable, plural tamaracks)
- Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
- 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 36:
- The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.
- 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 116:
- The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.
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- The wood from such a tree.
Synonyms
References
- “tamarack”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Chamberlain, Alexander F. (October–December 1902), “Algonkian Words in American English: A Study in the Contact of the White Man and The Indian”, in The Journal of American Folk-Lore, volume XV, issue LIX, American Folk-Lore Society, , page 260
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