English Explanatory Dictionary

tamarack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
  2. especially, Larix laricina
  3. Wood from such a tree.

Word forms

tamarack tamaracks

Etymology

From Canadian French tamarac, believed to derive from an Algonquian word. In European languages there was contamination between tacamahac, from Nahuatl, and various Algonquian words containing the final Proto-Algonquian *-a·xkw- (“hardwood or deciduous tree”), including the sources of tamarack and hackmatack, as was already recognized by Chamberlain 1902. This makes the precise Algonquian words involved difficult to recover.

Synonyms

hackmatack tacamahac American larch weeping hemlock black larch tamarak
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