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UK
/tˈæmɐɹˌæk/
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NOUN
- medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark
How To Use tamarack In A Sentence
- Personlly, I'd buy the tamarack definition: the words are fairly similar, and the further north you go into NH and Maine, the more you hear "larch" called "tamarack". Languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.
- This hanging lichen is most often found in tamarack and spruce thickets but can adhere to the limbs of deciduous trees in deeply shaded areas. How to Find (and Ignite) Six Natural Fire Starters
- Only such hardy species as aspen, black and white spruce, Labrador tea, and tamarack can withstand such conditions - which they do by actively transporting water out of their living cells at the start of winter.
- Nonetheless, Tamarack dedicated two of its five fax lines to the Israeli families, enabling them to communicate regularly with their children.
- With the couteau croche, the crooked knife of the North, Dick laboured slowly, fashioning with care the long tamarack strips. The Silent Places
- Perched on a tamarack just feet from the shoulder of the road was a Great Grey Owl.
- Mike Betit, principal of Tamarack Hollow Farms, served a controversial mac and cheese in Asian dumpling wrappers, lightly browned in butter — did he win? Who took the s’MACdown crown?
- Carruth meets the trees which are mindless but present as birch, aspen, dogwood, elm, spruce, balsam, viburnum, locust, beech, rockmaple, tamarack, and alder.
- Now the slender spires of tamarack and balsam fir dominated a scraggly forest, while impenetrable-looking layers of hardy shrubs filled the understorey.
- In boreal Alaska, a larch sawfly outbreak killed most of the larger and older tamarack (Larix laricina) trees during a warm period in the decade of the 1990s, and aspen leaf miner (Phyllocnistis populiella) appeared at outbreak levels (142,000 ha) by 2003 [28]. Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic