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hackmatack
[ hak-muh-tak ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hackmatack1
1765–75, Americanism; earlier hackmetack woods, hakmantak dense forest or interwoven shrubbery of tamarack or other conifers; probably < Western Abenaki
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Example Sentences
It brought him not to a hackmatack tree, but to the middle of several spruce trees.
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The timber was largely pine and hackmatack, but there was also some white and some yellow birch.
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The two principal American species are also called tamarack and hackmatack.
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Indeed, this is a common characteristic of the Hemlock, the Cedar, and the Hackmatack.
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A small hollow, overrun with hackmatack, led up towards the spot.
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