spruce pine

noun

a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
any of several other pines, as P. elliottii or P. virginiana.

spruce pine

An Americanism dating back to 1675–85

It was located exactly sixty-one feet from the point where the bodies had been found, in a dense spruce-pine thicket.

Beneath Eagle Crown the four-room cabin reposed in a shelter of spruce-pine, hemlock and cedar.

I saw a number of verry large Spruce Pine one of which I measured 14 feet around and verry tall.

We found the tall trees to be a kind of spruce pine, very proper for spars, of which we were in want.

Close beside our camping-place a large clump of spruce-pine stood in dull contrast to the snowy surface.

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