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Definition of Mountain hemlock
1. Noun. Large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Hemlock
Literary usage of Mountain hemlock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"Tree Species Composition and Stem Density Conifer species that typically grow at
higher elevations in the Pacific Northwest include mountain hemlock, ..."
2. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana). It's not that easy to tell a mountain
hemlock from a Western, but they are considerably smaller, growing to a maximum ..."
3. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana). It's not that easy to tell a mountain
hemlock from a Western, but they are considerably smaller, growing to a maximum ..."
4. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Of our native species, all have white lines on the under side of each leaf; the
mountain hemlock has them above and below. ..."
5. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"The mountain hemlock, an inhabitant of granite slopes or marshy meadows in either
... The mountain hemlock most commonly favors situations where the snow ..."
6. The Yosemite by John Muir (1912)
"THE mountain hemlock As the juniper is the most ... the mountain hemlock (Tsuga
Mertensiana) is the most graceful and pliant and sensitive. ..."
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