tamarack Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark
    Larix laricina; black larch; American larch.

WordNet

Tam"a*rack noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (a) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch. (b) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

Webster 1913