LARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does larch mean? 

• LARCH (noun)
  The noun LARCH has 2 senses:

1. wood of a larch tree

2. any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves

  Familiarity information: LARCH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood of a larch tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("larch" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("larch" is a substance of...):

larch; larch tree (any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

larch; larch tree

Hypernyms ("larch" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (substance of "larch"):

larch (wood of a larch tree)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "larch"):

American larch; black larch; Larix laricina; tamarack (medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark)

Larix occidentalis; Oregon larch; western larch; western tamarack (tall larch of western North America have pale green sharply pointed leaves and oblong cones; an important timber tree)

Larix lyallii; subalpine larch (medium-sized larch of the Rocky Mountains; closely related to Larix occidentalis)

European larch; Larix decidua (tall European tree having a slender conic crown, flat needlelike leaves, and hairy cone scales)

Larix russica; Larix siberica; Siberian larch (medium-sized larch of northeastern Russia and Siberia having narrowly conic crown and soft narrow bright-green leaves; used in cultivation)

Holonyms ("larch" is a member of...):

genus Larix; Larix (larches)

 Context examples 

Other insects that are camouflaged, such as the brown larch ladybird or green winter moth caterpillar, are fed on by great tits and their young, said Thorogood.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)

For the current study, Büntgen and his collaborators, sampled more than 1100 living and dead mountain pines from the Spanish Pyrenees and 660 Siberian larch samples from the Russian Altai: both high-elevation forest sites that have been undisturbed for thousands of years.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

A considerable flight of steps landed them in the wilderness, which was a planted wood of about two acres, and though chiefly of larch and laurel, and beech cut down, and though laid out with too much regularity, was darkness and shade, and natural beauty, compared with the bowling-green and the terrace.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Here Meg meant to have a fountain, shrubbery, and a profusion of lovely flowers, though just at present the fountain was represented by a weather-beaten urn, very like a dilapidated slopbowl, the shrubbery consisted of several young larches, undecided whether to live or die, and the profusion of flowers was merely hinted by regiments of sticks to show where seeds were planted.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)