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hack•ma•tack
(hak′mə tak′),USA pronunciation n.
- Plant Biologytamarack (def. 1).
- Plant BiologySee balsam poplar.
- Western Abenaki
- 1765–75, American; earlier hackmetack woods, hakmantak dense forest or interwoven shrubbery of tamarack or other conifers; prob
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