Other forms: larches
A larch is a conifer that sheds its needles in winter. A larch plantation, larch needles, a stand of larch.
It is one of the very few conifers that does, which is why a larch wood turns gold in autumn and stands bare all winter among the evergreens. The timber is hard, durable and used outdoors, and it was the traditional wood for boat planking.
1nounlarchA conifer that sheds its needles in winter.
“We walked through a larch forest, the soft needles thick under our boots.”
larch is a tree.
German Larche comes through Middle High German from a Latin word for the tree.
Ancient Greek
λάριξ
Latin
larix
Proto-West Germanic
*larikā
Old High German
larihha
Middle High German
larche
German
Larche
English, today
larch
From early modern German Larche, Lärche, from Middle High German larche, from Old High German larihha, from Proto-West Germanic larikā, an early borrowing from Latin larix, from Ancient Greek λάριξ, itself possibly of cel-gau - origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA