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black spruce
noun
- a spruce, Picea mariana, of North America, having bluish-green leaves and grayish-brown bark.
- the light, soft wood of this tree.
black spruce
noun
- a coniferous tree, Picea mariana , of the northern regions of North America, growing mostly in cold bogs and having dark green needles Also calledspruce pine
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Word History and Origins
Origin of black spruce1
An Americanism dating back to 1755–65
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Example Sentences
Its rocky surface sustained a scant growth of gnarled black spruce and stunted white birch, with here and there patches of brush.
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The background was a lone black spruce against the shifting sky scenery.
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Regiments of black spruce stood in endless files like grenadiers, each tree capped with a thick tuft of matted cones and branches.
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Run up that black spruce there, and taste the seeds 167 in the cones.
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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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