black spruce

collocation in English

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black
adjective
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/blæk/us
/blæk/
having the darkest colour there is, like the colour of coal or of a very ...
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spruce
noun[C or U]
uk
/spruːs/us
/spruːs/
an evergreen tree (= one that never loses its leaves) with leaves like needles, or the pale-coloured wood from ...
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(Definition ofblackandsprucefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Genetic structure ofblackspruceon two contrasting sites.
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This plot shows that even between neighbouring unburnedblacksprucesites, soil moisture conditions vary greatly.
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Water uptake byblackspruceseedlings from rooting media (solution, sand, peat) treated with inorganic and oxalated aluminum.
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Coniferous trees such asblackspruce, white spruce, and balsam fir dominate the native vegetation.
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Balsam fir,blackspruceand red spruce are common.
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Valley trees include white spruce,blackspruce, tamarack larch, balsam fir, jack pine, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, and paper birch.
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Blackspruce, eastern hemlock, balsam fir and eastern white pine trees are the most common.
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For example, an old boreal forest may contain some large aspen trees, which may die and be replaced by smaller balsam fir orblackspruce.
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The smaller variety grows in swampy areas such asblacksprucemuskegs.
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The landscape is now dominated byblackspruce, tamarack, and northern whitecedar in the lowlands; aspen, pine, and balsam fir predominate in upland sites.
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Nourishing a boreal ecosystem, extensive forests ofblackspruce, white spruce and balsam fir cover much of the landscape.
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In the meantime, the colonists improvised a beer made from red andblacksprucetwigs boiled in water, as well as a ginger beer.
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The sphagnum bog contains two main types of vegetationtheblackspruceforest and the open heath vegetation.
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Blacksprucetypically seeds in promptly after fire, and with the continued absence of fire, will eventually dominate the hardwoods.
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Most stands are even-aged due to frequent fire intervals inblackspruceforests.
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The district is heavily forested, mostly by thick stands ofblacksprucethat have commercial value as pulpwood.
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These forests are composed by black pine, white spruce,blackspruceetc.
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There are few scatteredblackspruceand larch in the surrounding tundra.
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The present secondary forest is a mix of pines,blackspruce, sugar maple, and basswood.
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In the northern part of its range, ice pruned asymmetricblackspruceare often seen with diminished foliage on the windward side.
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