tamarack

noun

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.

1. Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.

   “The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.”

   “The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.”

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