spruce
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They are from 7 to 8 feet long, made from carefully selected 50-to-60-year-old pine and spruce trees felled in early summer; tests of replica spears have suggested a range of about 38 yards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Native trees like alder, spruce and rowan are interspersed with hawthorn shrubs.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
A spruce branch threaded through the spout as a filter.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
This chemical modification unexpectedly helps the fungus infect beetles, especially those that previously fed on spruce tissue rich in phenolic compounds.
From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026
High in the spruce tree in front of me is a large nest of sticks and—climbing up toward it—Alice.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Novel Study: The Outsiders, Chapters 6–12
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