单词 | black spruce |
释义 | > as lemmasblack spruce black spruce n. a small spruce tree, Picea mariana, of Canada and the northern United States; (also) the wood of this tree, now chiefly used for pulp and paper. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > spruces spruce?1602 Norway fir1666 spruce fir1676 hemlock tree1679 hemlock1728 spruce pine1731 white spruce1731 black spruce1741 red spruce1741 Norway spruce1766 silver fir1789 var1793 Engelmann1866 Sitka spruce1867 Sitka pine1868 skunk spruce1876 Colorado spruce1881 Yeddo spruce1932 1741 P. Collinson Let. 25 Feb. in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 151 Look out sharp for the Balm of Gilead Firs, & Black, Red & White Spruce as Mr. Dudley Calls them. 1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum IV. cxiii. 2313 The branches spread more in a horizontal than in a drooping direction, like those of the Norway spruce; and, consequently, the black spruce..has not the gloomy aspect of the European tree. 1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 472 The Black Spruce is essentially a Canadian tree growing abundantly in the Labrador peninsula and forming great forests in Manitoba. 2003 D. Bennet & T. Tiner Wild Woods Guide 284/1 Black spruce can make-do-with-less better than all the trees which crowd it out in good soils. < as lemmas |
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