Definition of "tamarack"

tamarack

noun
countable and uncountable, plural tamaracks
1. Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
  Quotations
  The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.
  2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 36
  The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.
  2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 116
2. The wood from such a tree.