DCHP-1 Online
cat spruce 
the white spruce.
See also: white spruce
- 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.
- 1917 Common names [include] White spruce . . . cat spruce (Nova Scotia).