black spruce

/blæk sprus/
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Other forms: black spruces

Definitions of black spruce
  1. noun
    small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
    synonyms: Picea mariana, spruce pine
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    type of:
    spruce
    any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
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