Larix occidentalis n 1: tall larch of western North America have pale green sharply pointed leaves and oblong cones; an important timber tree [syn: {western larch}, {western tamarack}, {Oregon larch}, {Larix occidentalis}]
Tamarack \Tam"a*rack\, n. (Bot.) (a) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia ({Larix occidentalis}). See {Hackmatack}, and {Larch}. (b) The black pine ({Pinus Murrayana}) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood. [1913 Webster]