SIBERIAN LARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Siberian larch mean? 

• SIBERIAN LARCH (noun)
  The noun SIBERIAN LARCH has 1 sense:

1. medium-sized larch of northeastern Russia and Siberia having narrowly conic crown and soft narrow bright-green leaves; used in cultivation

  Familiarity information: SIBERIAN LARCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIBERIAN LARCH (noun)

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Meaning:

Medium-sized larch of northeastern Russia and Siberia having narrowly conic crown and soft narrow bright-green leaves; used in cultivation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Larix russica; Larix siberica; Siberian larch

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

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

 Context examples 

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)