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tamarack
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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 59 Housing Units (2000): 48 Land area (2000): 3.598216 sq. miles (9.319337 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.598216 sq. miles (9.319337 sq. km) FIPS code: 64156 Located within: Minnesota ...
Wikipedia
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Tamarack may refer to: Trees: Tamarack Larch , Larix laricina , medium-size deciduous conifer native to North America Tamarack pine , Pinus contorta Locations: Canada Tamarack, Edmonton , Alberta Tamarack, Ontario United States Tamarack, California , in ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hackmatack \Hack"ma*tack`\ (h[a^]k"m[.a]*t[a^]k`), n. [Of American Indian origin.] (Bot.) The American larch ( Larix Americana ), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also tamarac , North American black larch, 1805, probably of Algonquian origin (compare synonymous hackmatack , 1792, from a source akin to Abenaki akemantak "a kind of supple wood used for making snowshoes"), but the etymology is unclear.
Usage examples of tamarack.
It consisted of a rank, coarse kind of grass, and arrowweed, mesquite, and tamarack.
To her right was a vast tangle of dreary tamarack and cedar interspersed with deadwood, bracken, and thorny shrubs.
By and by the banks of the river grew lower and marshy, and in place of the larger forest-trees which had covered them stood slender tamaracks, sickly, mossy, looking as if they had been moon-struck and were out of their wits, their tufts of leaves staring off every way from their spindling branches.
Little Becky had wanted to know last summer as she slip sloppily balanced along roily rocks and squeezed between the trunks of two high-reaching and rough-ribbed tamaracks grown up on either side of a boulder.
To pass from the town of Tamarack on the north of the mountain to Rockland on the south was like crossing from Coire to Chiavenna.
Without slowing, he batted aside tamarack limbs and ducked under balsam boughs.
The beech and maple of the eastern edges gave way to spruce and tamarack, balsam fir, and their route lay often over open ground, across high shoulders of rock and slopes of littered scree.