Unscramble

t 1 a 1 m 3 a 1 r 1 a 1 c 3 k 5

8 letters · 16 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark

originFrom 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…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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