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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Bot.)

(a)

The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (

Larix occidentalis

). See

, and

(b)

The black pine (

Pinus Murrayana

) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

tamarack ‎(plural tamaracks)

Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix; the wood from such a tree
- 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin 2008, p. 36:
  The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.

↑ “tamarack” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
↑ 1902, Journal of American Folklore, volume 15, page 260