tamarack

noun

tam·​a·​rack ˈta-mə-ˌrak 

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

According to local lore, the tamarack was taken by Behring as a sign that transplanted people would flourish here too. —Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024

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

Word History

Etymology

origin unknown

First Known Use

1805, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

tamarack

noun

tam·​a·​rack ˈtam-(ə-)ˌrak 

1

: any of several American larches

especially : one of the northern U.S. and Canada

2

: the wood of a tamarack