OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14638

larch

/ˈlɑːtʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alerce • lárice
A coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles.
1716, Nicholas Rowe (translator), The Ninth Book of Lucan in John Dryden, Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, Volume 6, p. 67, The Gummy Larch-Tree, and the Thapsos there, Woun…
The Larch-tree, with us, groweth slowly, and to be found in few places; it hath a rugged bark, and boughts that branch in good order, with divers small yellowish bunched eminences,…
alerce
Wood of the larch.
Old Peter was up early too, harnessing the little yellow horse into the old cart. The cart was of rough wood, without springs, like a big box fixed on long larch poles between two…
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