Associations to the word «Hackmatack»

Wiktionary

HACKMATACK, noun. A larch, a tree of the species Larix laricina.
HACKMATACK, noun. A balsam poplar, a tree of the species Populus balsamifera.

Dictionary definition

HACKMATACK, noun. Poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne