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Answer for the clue "Manitoba's tree ", 6 letters:
spruce

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n. light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

Usage examples of spruce.

And there were trees-not just the stunted stands of Alpine willow and Glang-ma, whose long branches the nomads used to weave their intricate basketry, or the twisted bush that provided the Yeti-wood for their fires-but around Lhasa were forests of spruce and fir, pine and spreading yew, black and white birches, oaks and poplar.

Under the spruce by the hedgerow, the curie in the three-cornered hat reading his breviary had lost his right foot, and the very plaster, scaling off with the frost, had left white scabs on his face.

It is a land drowning in its own juices, with muskeg, quicksand and matted spruce forests making any kind of orderly traverse impossible.

At the front of the store was an array of polyvinyl chloride spruce trees predecorated with bubble lights and topped with glass penguins.

She pushed out her lower jaw and stared up through the canopy of birch, aspen, and popple, the deeper green of pine and spruce.

The stang was taller than he, a fifteen-year growth of black spruce, three foot round and oozing pitch, and looking at it Crope knew what he must do.

All over Erith, in hovels and bothies, in cottages and crofts, in marketplaces, smithies, and workshops, in barracks, taverns, malt-houses, and inns, in manor houses, stately homes, and Towers, in halls and keeps, castles and palaces, they set holly garlands on rooftrees, ivy festoons around inglenooks, sprays of mistletoe above the doors and strobiled wreaths of pine and fir and spruce on every available projection.

They closed in upon a knoll and found him standing twenty feet about them on a great cube of whinstone, completely masked by a surrounding clump of black spruce.

The red ember of Phoenix, otherwise known as Manticore-A II, rested on the horizon, just above the tips of the Old Earth spruces fringing the lawn, and the gleaming gems of at least a dozen orbital platforms moved visibly against the stars.

Of pines, the white spruce is the most common here: the red and black spruce, the balsam of Gilead fir, and Banksian pine, also occur frequently.

Just before coming to this place, they had crossed a long, narrow benchland covered with stunted fir, pine, and spruce.

Then, at the very end of the straight lane, where the alternating brownish red beeches and blackish green spruce appeared very small, and the light green mossy path gleamed up and narrowing met the sky, I saw the galloping beast approaching.

There he took them behind a thickly limbed spruce blowdown, some hundred feet from the trail, tied their reins to branches, and pumped a plasma charge into each beautiful head.

Her skin was the color of lumber, say pine or spruce, washed with a tincture of creosote and slightly aged out of doors: browner than white and lighter than, say, beans of coffee in their burlap sacks.

In the branches of a dwarf spruce a solitary capercaillie sat, unperturbed, eyeing them as they passed.