western larch

noun

1

or western tamarack : an important timber tree (Larix occidentalis) of western North America with pale green sharply pointed leaves and oblong cones

called also Oregon larch

2

: the wood of the western larch

Word History

First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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