Engelmann spruce

[ eng-guhl-muhn ]

/ ˈɛŋ gəl mən /

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noun

a narrow, conical spruce, Picea engelmannii, of western North America, having short, dense branches and yielding a soft, pale-yellow wood.

the soft, light wood of this tree, used in the construction of buildings and in the manufacture of paper, boxes, etc.

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Origin of Engelmann spruce

1865–70; named after G. Engelmann (1809–84), German-American botanist

Words nearby Engelmann spruce

en garde, engarland, engawa, Eng. D., Engel, Engelmann spruce, Engels, Engels, Friedrich, Engel's law, engender, Enghien, d'

How to use Engelmann spruce in a sentence

I was sitting so low, even the permafrost-stunted spruce trees towered over me.
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A decade ago, they decided for a holiday botox spruce-up mit smooth-out.
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In Long Beach, the good old Queen Mary and Spruce Goose could finally sail again.
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Unfortunately, the FDNY is too busy to tell you how to avoid turning your 10-foot spruce into a 10-foot match.
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Scattergood fairly licked his lips as he thought of the millions upon millions of feet of spruce to be sawed into lumber.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
Also, ownership of vast limits of growing spruce was necessary to the control of the valley.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
There are sixty thousand acres of mighty good spruce in that triangle between us, and it's as good as ours.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
And so Antler took courage and grasping a strong branch of a friendly spruce struggled through the deep snow.
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Now we're looking about for somebody to supply us spruce cut to the proper length for pulpwood.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland