NOUN
- medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood
How To Use red spruce In A Sentence
- The forests include such conifers as red spruce, black spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, red pine, jack pine, eastern white pine, tamarack, eastern white cedar, and eastern hemlock.
- These highlands have a story to tell, one illustrated by railroad ties, horseshoes, and rusty scraps of metal - as well as big-tooth aspen and red spruce saplings poking through the snow.
- The red spruce decline was continuing though it was statistically leveling off, since most of the spruce were already dead.
- The role of pollutants in nutrient availability and uptake has been a special concern with regard to red spruce growth.
- This restored forest would be dominated by long-lived, shade tolerant species like sugar maple, yellow birch, hemlock, white pine and red spruce.
- = -- April to May, a week or two earlier than the red spruce; sterile flowers terminal or axillary, on wood of the preceding year; about 3/8 inch long, ovate; anthers madder-red: fertile flowers at or near end of season's shoots, erect; scales madder-red, spirally imbricated, broader than long, margin erose, rarely entire. Handbook of the Trees of New England
- Wednesday is the deadline for immigrants to apply for the required spruced-up green cards.
