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BLACK SPRUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black spruce mean? 

BLACK SPRUCE (noun)
  The noun BLACK SPRUCE has 1 sense:

1. small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior woodplay

  Familiarity information: BLACK SPRUCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACK SPRUCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black spruce; Picea mariana; spruce pine

Hypernyms ("black spruce" is a kind of...):

spruce (any coniferous tree of the genus Picea)


 Context examples 


The essential oil extracted from the needles and twigs of the black spruce, Picea mariana.

(Picea mariana Leaf Oil, NCI Thesaurus)



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