black spruce

Questions about black spruce

What is another word for black spruce?

It depends which black spruce you mean. In the sense “small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood”, the synonyms are Picea mariana, spruce pine. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of black spruce?

WordNet records no antonym for black spruce. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for black spruce come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of black spruce

• Full entry for black spruceAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for black spruceWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.