Small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood.
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Examples for "black spruce"
Examples for "black spruce"
1The wood is as valuable as that of the black spruce.
2The frozen gum of the black spruce glowed like frosted topaz.
3The land side was protected by an enormous black spruce swamp.
4The trees are small black spruce and larch, but a fairly thick growth.
5The black spruce has little value as an ornamental tree.
1They proved to be a species of spruce pine, very proper for spars, which were then wanted.
2The objects observed were found to be a species of spruce pine, admirably fitted for masts and spars.
3We are still hewers of wood and drawers of water, but the spruce pine beetle is destroying our forests.
4The chief produce of the island is a kind of spruce pine, exceedingly straight and tall, which grows in great abundance.
5We found the tall trees to be a kind of spruce pine, very proper for spars, of which we were in want.