larch
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- noun
- /lɑrtʃ/
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- We walked through a beautiful larch forest, where the golden needles carpeted the ground.
- larch forest
- larch tree
- golden larch
Examples
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Mountain wash of snowmelt through granite, past fir, larch, red cedar, and pine.
Academic text (2010) -
The tree with needle-like leaves that shed annually is a larch, commonly found in colder climates.
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I have spent enough time in northern larch to guess the site types, but seeing is believing.
Blog text (17) -
They just added this larch in this spring.
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In the paper I cite above, they found that older LARCH trees are more responsive to climate.
Blog text (17) -
Looking up, she saw the flame-colored jay perched on the limb of a tall larch.
Fiction book (2001) -
Take a camera and you'll never forget the sublime, golden subalpine larch of Mt. Frosty.
Blog text (30) -
In autumn, the larch turns a striking yellow before losing its needles for the winter.
Synonyms
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A tall tree with needle-like leaves that loses them in autumn
Compounds
- US
A medium-sized North American tree with needles that turn yellow in autumn and rust-brown bark
A medium-sized tree from Canada and northern United States with scaly brown bark and golden-yellow leaves in autumn
- US
A tall tree from western North America with pale green needles and cones grown for its wood
A medium-sized tree with soft bright-green needles that fall in autumn, used for its wood and in gardens
- Specialized
A medium-sized mountain tree in the Rocky Mountains with soft needles that turn golden in autumn
- Specialized
A tall North American tree with needles that turn golden in autumn and long cones, valued for strong wood
Surface Forms
Etymology
Larch comes from the old Latin name larix, which was the name for this 'tree' and later came into English through French. So larch names the tree that turns golden and drops its needles each year.