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Meanings of black spruce in English

Small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood.

        Usage of black spruce in English
        1
        The wood is as valuable as that of the black spruce.
        Among the Trees at Elmridge
        2
        The frozen gum of the black spruce glowed like frosted topaz.
        Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
        3
        The land side was protected by an enormous black spruce swamp.
        The Gun-Brand
        4
        The trees are small black spruce and larch, but a fairly thick growth.
        The Long Labrador Trail
        5
        The black spruce has little value as an ornamental tree.
        Studies of Trees
        6
        Behind us the black spruce forest made our roaring fire seem more cheerful in contrast.
        The Lure of the Labrador Wild
        7
        He was not afraid of the strange bloodcurdling cries they made in the black spruce tops.
        Baree, Son of Kazan
        8
        A spring of water ran out from among the anchoring roots of a huge black spruce.
        Westways: A Village Chronicle
        9
        The path led up through forests of black spruce whose sighing branches whispered softly over our heads.
        The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5
        10
        So their presence in a black spruce top directly over the dead fawn did not hold him back now.
        The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness
        11
        And his ears scarcely heard the raucous scolding of the blue-jay in the fire-tipped crest of the tall black spruce.
        The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness
        12
        In the arm there are several small, rocky islands which sustain a scrubby growth of black spruce and fir balsam.
        The Long Labrador Trail
        13
        Those were the days when, like happy children, they had romped and laughed together out there beyond the black spruce.
        The Honor of the Big Snows
        14
        He circled twice about the caribou and the pack, and then trotted off to the edge of the black spruce forest.
        Kazan
        15
        Then she saw him shoulder his pack, and, with bowed head, disappear slowly into the depths of the black spruce forest.
        The Honor of the Big Snows
        16
        Great columns of black spruce, weighed down by ton upon ton of new snow, rose up like a city around them.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        This collocation consists of:
        Black spruce through the time
        Black spruce across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common