tamarackn.

Brit.

/ˈtamərak/, U.S.

/ˈtæm(ə)ˌræk/

Forms: 1800s tamerac, 1800s tamerack, 1800s temerack, 1800s termerack, 1800s–1900s tamarac, 1800s– tamarach, 1800s– tamarack, 1900s tamrac.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < an Algonquian language, although no likely etymon has been traced. Compare North American French tamarac (1835 or earlier). Compare slightly earlier hackmatack n. 1.Attributed by F. A. Michiaux to the Dutch settlers of New Jersey, but no evidence for this word has been found in Dutch, and the form given here may reflect a regional borrowing from English:1810 F. A. Michaux Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 29 American larch..Hacmatack..Tamarack par les Hollandois du New-Jersey. Sometimes confused with the similar-sounding tamarisk n. (compare sense 2 at that entry), although the plants look very different.

North American.

Any of several North American coniferous trees; spec. the hackmatack or red larch, Larix laricina, and the lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta. Also: the wood of such a tree. Cf. hackmatack n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies

pine treeeOE

pineOE

pine-nut treec1330

pineapplec1390

pineapple treea1398

mountain pine1597

pine1597

mountain pine1601

frankincense1611

rosin flower?1611

black pine1683

Scotch pine1706

yellow pine1709

Jersey pine1743

loblolly pine1760

mugoa1768

Scots pine1774

Scotch fir1777

arrow plant1779

scrub pine1791

Georgia pine1796

old field pine1797

tamarack1805

grey pine1810

pond pine1810

New Jersey pine1818

loblolly1819

Corsican pine1824

celery-top pine1827

toatoa1831

heavy-wooded pine1836

nut pine1845

celery pine1851

celery-topped pine1851

sugar-pine1853

western white pine1857

Jeffrey1858

Korean pine1858

lodge-pole pine1859

jack pine1863

whitebark pine1864

twisted pine1866

Monterey pine1868

tanekaha1875

chir1882

slash-pine1882

celery-leaved pine1883

knee-pine1884

knobcone pine1884

matsu1884

meadow pine1884

Alaska pine1890

limber pine1901

bristlecone pine1908

o-matsu1916

insignis1920

radiata1953

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > larch and allies > [noun]

larch1548

larch-tree1548

black larch1752

larix1754

alerce1774

red American larch1785

hackmatack1793

tamarack1805

German larch1838

mountain larch1850

Japanese larch1861

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine > types of

bog fir1770

ocote1787

Georgia pine1796

Labrador pine1803

pumpkin pine1809

Banksian pine1831

bog-pine1842

tamarack pine1843

tamarack1864

Baltic pine1866

Norway pine1866

slash-pine1882

Queensland kauri1889

krummholz1908

fat-wood1909

1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 14 Sept. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 205 The Mountains..Thickly Strowed with falling timber & Pine Spruc fur Hackmatak & Tamerack.

1842 G. Barstow Hist. New Hampsh. 453 Boughs of the tamarac and spruce overhang the road.

1864 S. S. Montague Rep. Chief Engineer Central Pacific Railroad 25 Trestling..built of the best mountain timber, red fir, sugar pine, or tamarack.

1909 Science 30 Apr. 700/2 The use of the name tamarack..for the lodge pole or Murray pine (Pinus murrayana)..grates on the nerves of those brought up among the real tamaracks (Larix).

1947 R. Peattie Sierra Nevada 160 Lodgepole pine..is plain tamarack to many Californians.

1997 Log Home Living July 80 Although the walls are tamarack, the gargantuan posts and beams of the roof structure are Douglas fir.

2005 Canad. Geographic Mar. 76/2 The interior of Labrador is a plateau at about 400 metres above sea level... Tamarack grows in the swampy areas.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1817 W. Keyes Jrnl. 25 Aug. in Wisconsin Mag. Hist. (1920) 3 351 Crossed a large meadow, a temerack swamp &c.

1865 Wisconsin Farmer Sept. 260/1 Where tamarack poles are to be had.., I should prefer them to either popple or pine.

1894 Outing May 94/1 By vigorous working of three paddles we got up a ‘tamarack breeze’ that carried us rapidly along.

1922 Amer. Lumberman 17 June 52/1 The peeled tamarack logs, with their rich and varied color tones.

1979 J. van de Wetering Maine Massacre xix. 225 The only decorations, hanging from hooks on the low, handhewn tamarack beams, were tools and weapons.

1992 C. Wilkins Wolf's Eye 19 Slim had made sure the net was strong, constructing it of moose hide, rope, tamarack roots, and fishing line.

2014 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 13 Apr. g5 Bigfork State Forest..is densely wooded with plenty of lakes and black spruce and tamarack bog.

C2.

tamarack pine n. = main sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine > types of

bog fir1770

ocote1787

Georgia pine1796

Labrador pine1803

pumpkin pine1809

Banksian pine1831

bog-pine1842

tamarack pine1843

tamarack1864

Baltic pine1866

Norway pine1866

slash-pine1882

Queensland kauri1889

krummholz1908

fat-wood1909

1843 I. N. Nicollet Rep. Map Hydrographical Basin Upper Mississippi River 19 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (26th Congress., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 237) V Swamps are frequent, and some of them contain extensive tracts of tamarack pines.

1869 Yosemite Guide-Bk. (Geol. Surv. Calif.) ii. 41 The tamarack pine (P. contorta).

1949 Kenosha (Wisconsin) Evening News 23 Aug. 11 The fire is sweeping through a 50-acre track of tamarack pine and peat bogs.

2000 Ski Dec. 64/1 The moon had risen full over the towering firs and tamarack pines.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tamarack
释义	tamarackn. Brit. /ˈtamərak/, U.S. /ˈtæm(ə)ˌræk/ Forms: 1800s tamerac, 1800s tamerack, 1800s temerack, 1800s termerack, 1800s–1900s tamarac, 1800s– tamarach, 1800s– tamarack, 1900s tamrac. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < an Algonquian language, although no likely etymon has been traced. Compare North American French tamarac (1835 or earlier). Compare slightly earlier hackmatack n. 1.Attributed by F. A. Michiaux to the Dutch settlers of New Jersey, but no evidence for this word has been found in Dutch, and the form given here may reflect a regional borrowing from English:1810 F. A. Michaux Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 29 American larch..Hacmatack..Tamarack par les Hollandois du New-Jersey. Sometimes confused with the similar-sounding tamarisk n. (compare sense 2 at that entry), although the plants look very different. North American. Any of several North American coniferous trees; spec. the hackmatack or red larch, Larix laricina, and the lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta. Also: the wood of such a tree. Cf. hackmatack n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies pine treeeOE pineOE pine-nut treec1330 pineapplec1390 pineapple treea1398 mountain pine1597 pine1597 mountain pine1601 frankincense1611 rosin flower?1611 black pine1683 Scotch pine1706 yellow pine1709 Jersey pine1743 loblolly pine1760 mugoa1768 Scots pine1774 Scotch fir1777 arrow plant1779 scrub pine1791 Georgia pine1796 old field pine1797 tamarack1805 grey pine1810 pond pine1810 New Jersey pine1818 loblolly1819 Corsican pine1824 celery-top pine1827 toatoa1831 heavy-wooded pine1836 nut pine1845 celery pine1851 celery-topped pine1851 sugar-pine1853 western white pine1857 Jeffrey1858 Korean pine1858 lodge-pole pine1859 jack pine1863 whitebark pine1864 twisted pine1866 Monterey pine1868 tanekaha1875 chir1882 slash-pine1882 celery-leaved pine1883 knee-pine1884 knobcone pine1884 matsu1884 meadow pine1884 Alaska pine1890 limber pine1901 bristlecone pine1908 o-matsu1916 insignis1920 radiata1953 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > larch and allies > [noun] larch1548 larch-tree1548 black larch1752 larix1754 alerce1774 red American larch1785 hackmatack1793 tamarack1805 German larch1838 mountain larch1850 Japanese larch1861 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine > types of bog fir1770 ocote1787 Georgia pine1796 Labrador pine1803 pumpkin pine1809 Banksian pine1831 bog-pine1842 tamarack pine1843 tamarack1864 Baltic pine1866 Norway pine1866 slash-pine1882 Queensland kauri1889 krummholz1908 fat-wood1909 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 14 Sept. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 205 The Mountains..Thickly Strowed with falling timber & Pine Spruc fur Hackmatak & Tamerack. 1842 G. Barstow Hist. New Hampsh. 453 Boughs of the tamarac and spruce overhang the road. 1864 S. S. Montague Rep. Chief Engineer Central Pacific Railroad 25 Trestling..built of the best mountain timber, red fir, sugar pine, or tamarack. 1909 Science 30 Apr. 700/2 The use of the name tamarack..for the lodge pole or Murray pine (Pinus murrayana)..grates on the nerves of those brought up among the real tamaracks (Larix). 1947 R. Peattie Sierra Nevada 160 Lodgepole pine..is plain tamarack to many Californians. 1997 Log Home Living July 80 Although the walls are tamarack, the gargantuan posts and beams of the roof structure are Douglas fir. 2005 Canad. Geographic Mar. 76/2 The interior of Labrador is a plateau at about 400 metres above sea level... Tamarack grows in the swampy areas. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1817 W. Keyes Jrnl. 25 Aug. in Wisconsin Mag. Hist. (1920) 3 351 Crossed a large meadow, a temerack swamp &c. 1865 Wisconsin Farmer Sept. 260/1 Where tamarack poles are to be had.., I should prefer them to either popple or pine. 1894 Outing May 94/1 By vigorous working of three paddles we got up a ‘tamarack breeze’ that carried us rapidly along. 1922 Amer. Lumberman 17 June 52/1 The peeled tamarack logs, with their rich and varied color tones. 1979 J. van de Wetering Maine Massacre xix. 225 The only decorations, hanging from hooks on the low, handhewn tamarack beams, were tools and weapons. 1992 C. Wilkins Wolf's Eye 19 Slim had made sure the net was strong, constructing it of moose hide, rope, tamarack roots, and fishing line. 2014 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 13 Apr. g5 Bigfork State Forest..is densely wooded with plenty of lakes and black spruce and tamarack bog. C2. tamarack pine n. = main sense. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine > types of bog fir1770 ocote1787 Georgia pine1796 Labrador pine1803 pumpkin pine1809 Banksian pine1831 bog-pine1842 tamarack pine1843 tamarack1864 Baltic pine1866 Norway pine1866 slash-pine1882 Queensland kauri1889 krummholz1908 fat-wood1909 1843 I. N. Nicollet Rep. Map Hydrographical Basin Upper Mississippi River 19 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (26th Congress., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 237) V Swamps are frequent, and some of them contain extensive tracts of tamarack pines. 1869 Yosemite Guide-Bk. (Geol. Surv. Calif.) ii. 41 The tamarack pine (P. contorta). 1949 Kenosha (Wisconsin) Evening News 23 Aug. 11 The fire is sweeping through a 50-acre track of tamarack pine and peat bogs. 2000 Ski Dec. 64/1 The moon had risen full over the towering firs and tamarack pines. 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