English > spruce: 5 senses > noun 2, plant| Meaning | Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea. |
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| Member of | Picea, genus Picea | A genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce) |
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| Narrower | Colorado spruce, Colorado blue spruce, silver spruce, Picea pungens | tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown |
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| Engelmann spruce, Engelmann's spruce, Picea engelmannii | tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown |
| Norway spruce, Picea abies | tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones |
| Siberian spruce, Picea obovata | tall spruce of northern Europe and Asia |
| Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis | A large spruce that grows only along the northwestern coast of the United States and Canada |
| black spruce, Picea mariana, spruce pine | small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage |
| oriental spruce, Picea orientalis | evergreen tree of the Caucasus and Asia Minor used as an ornamental having pendulous branchlets |
| red spruce, eastern spruce, yellow spruce, Picea rubens | medium-sized spruce of eastern North America |
| weeping spruce, Brewer's spruce, Picea breweriana | medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon having pendulous branches |
| white spruce, Picea glauca | medium-sized spruce of northeastern North America having short blue-green leaves and slender cones |
| Broader | conifer, coniferous tree | Any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones |
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| Substances | spruce | light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees |
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| Spanish | abeto, picea, pícea |
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| Catalan | avet roig, pícea |
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