cat spruce

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the white spruce.

Quotations

1917

Common names [include] White spruce . . . cat spruce (Nova Scotia).

1925

The young shoots and leaves have when crushed a very unpleasant odour, which has earned for the tree the name of Cat-Spruce.

1952

Joseph himself stopped to examine . . . a cat spruce and quite useless as a Christmas tree.

1956

She made a fast drive of it . . . winding through a wood of cat-spruce trees.