Small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood.
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The wood is as valuable as that of the black spruce.
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The frozen gum of the black spruce glowed like frosted topaz.
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The land side was protected by an enormous black spruce swamp.
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The trees are small black spruce and larch, but a fairly thick growth.
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The black spruce has little value as an ornamental tree.
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Behind us the black spruce forest made our roaring fire seem more cheerful in contrast.
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He was not afraid of the strange bloodcurdling cries they made in the black spruce tops.
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A spring of water ran out from among the anchoring roots of a huge black spruce.
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The path led up through forests of black spruce whose sighing branches whispered softly over our heads.
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So their presence in a black spruce top directly over the dead fawn did not hold him back now.
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And his ears scarcely heard the raucous scolding of the blue-jay in the fire-tipped crest of the tall black spruce.
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In the arm there are several small, rocky islands which sustain a scrubby growth of black spruce and fir balsam.
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Those were the days when, like happy children, they had romped and laughed together out there beyond the black spruce.
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He circled twice about the caribou and the pack, and then trotted off to the edge of the black spruce forest.
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Then she saw him shoulder his pack, and, with bowed head, disappear slowly into the depths of the black spruce forest.
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Great columns of black spruce, weighed down by ton upon ton of new snow, rose up like a city around them.
