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Definition of Hackmatacks
1. hackmatack [n] - See also: hackmatack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackmatacks
Literary usage of Hackmatacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1883)
"We also noticed from the railroad train in going from Brunswick to Boston, about
the middle of September, that the hackmatacks had been stripped near ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The hackmatacks might perhaps be grown with advantage in places too wet for the
common larch. In western America a larch (L. occidentals) occurs more nearly ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The hackmatacks might perhaps be grown with advantage in places too wet for the
common larch. In western America a larch occurs more nearly resembling L. ..."
4. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1883)
"9 The hackmatacks in the region near to and south and southeast of the ...
WW Bailey, of Brown University, Providence, the hackmatacks were stripped of ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"We were talking of this vacation of Turner's one Christmas evening, which we
spent together, the Inghams, the Carters, and the hackmatacks, at Haliburton's ..."
6. Collections by CT Historical Society (1901)
"It is probable that the hemlock, the pines, firs, spruces and hackmatacks, with
their congeners, came next, followed later by the remaining deciduous trees ..."
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