tamarack

== English == === 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. === Noun === tamarack (countable and uncountable, plural tamaracks) Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix. especially, Larix laricina Synonyms: American larch, weeping hemlock, hackmatack, black larch, tamarak Wood from such a tree. ==== Synonyms ==== hackmatack tacamahac === References === “tamarack”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.