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black spruce

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black spruce
n.
A northern North American spruce (Picea mariana) having blue-green needles and small, egg-shaped cones.
black spruce
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a coniferous tree, Picea mariana, of the northern regions of North America, growing mostly in cold bogs and having dark green needles Also called spruce pine
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Noun1.black spruceblack spruce - small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
Picea mariana, spruce pine
spruce - any coniferous tree of the genus Picea


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