I. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
red
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A lot of what exists in these woods can not be seen from my red spruce .
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My lookout tree is a red spruce .
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The red spruce and Fraser fir began to recolonize the cut-over areas.
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Whatever way they sliced the statistics, the mortality of the red spruce was dramatic and frightening.
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Hub Vogelmann can tell you two stories about the future of red spruce .
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The small russet cones of red spruce are borne only near the tip of the crown.
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The red spruces and balsam firs that dominated the vegetation near the mountaintop thrived under high rainfall and cool temperatures.
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I can do experiments in the greenhouse that show that red spruce are harmed by ozone and acid deposition.
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A further factor complicating the story is the trend towards monoculture of timber trees such as spruce .
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A lot of what exists in these woods can not be seen from my red spruce .
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Even that blend is offset by the nearly black green of the higher, distant spruces.
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The red spruce and Fraser fir began to recolonize the cut-over areas.
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There were shapes of spruces rising to constrict a sky full of great cold stars.
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They'd passed beyond the deciduous woods, and the trees on either side were conifers - larch, spruce and pine.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
up
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Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair.
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Towns along the route are sprucing up their downtowns.
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There will also be a £1billion drive to spruce up deprived inner-city areas.
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Interiors are sprucing up in green, as well.
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The borough council has earmarked more than £80,000 to spruce up properties on Newport Road, opposite the bus station.
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Clean, well-maintained, the downtown spruced up with trees and brick sidewalks and crosswalks.
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It also makes specialty parts and accessories, which can be used to spruce up the performance and appearance of existing automobiles.
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Clean, well-maintained, the downtown spruced up with trees and brick sidewalks and crosswalks.
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He needed his wife's presence to spruce him up and to take both him and the cottage in hand.
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Interiors are sprucing up in green, as well.
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It also makes specialty parts and accessories, which can be used to spruce up the performance and appearance of existing automobiles.
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Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair.
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She'd come creeping back again, complaining about Dad's crumpled collars and his scuffed shoes, sprucing him up.
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Towns along the route are sprucing up their downtowns.
III. adjective
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■ NOUN
tree
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It was surrounded by spruce trees and bougainvillaea, with a high bank leading up to the front door.
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These and other shrubs were interspersed with small, scraggly larch and black spruce trees .
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Gradually I descended the spruce tree and slowly crept toward the feeding birds.
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All of it flowed to a field of satellite dishes surrounded by spruce trees a few hundred yards from the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
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When the great spruce tree burns, its cones explode, and the seeds of a new forest are planted.
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Groves of old-growth lodge-pole pine and aging spruce fir exploded into flame like toothpicks be-fore a blowtorch.
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He skirted the spruce plantation and supposed that at some point he should tell Sara about it.
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It was surrounded by spruce trees and bougainvillaea, with a high bank leading up to the front door.
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The spruce branch fell to the floor and the ivy wound itself around her neck like some pagan wreath.
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The fuselage was of welded steel tube, faired to an oval section, with spruce formers, and fabric covered.
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The remote Sylvan Lake Lodge overlooks a striking man-made lake and spruce forest.
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These and other shrubs were interspersed with small, scraggly larch and black spruce trees.
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When the evening comes the female spruce budworm moth rises up on warm air currents.