spruce pine

noun

1. small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood

• Syn: ↑black spruce, ↑Picea mariana

• Hypernyms: ↑spruce

2. common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood

• Syn: ↑eastern hemlock, ↑Canadian hemlock, ↑Tsuga canadensis

• Hypernyms: ↑hemlock, ↑hemlock tree

3. shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares

• Syn: ↑shore pine, ↑lodgepole, ↑lodgepole pine, ↑Pinus contorta

• Hypernyms: ↑pine, ↑pine tree, ↑true pine

4. large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood

• Syn: ↑Pinus glabra

• Hypernyms: ↑pine, ↑pine tree, ↑true pine

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noun

1. : any of various American pines with light soft wood:

a. : a pine (Pinus glabra) of the southern United States

b. : yellow pine 1a

c. : white pine 1a

d. : lodgepole pine

2. : eastern hemlock

3. : any of several spruces; especially : black spruce 1

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1. a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.

2. any of several other pines, as P. elliottii or P. virginiana.

[1675-85, Amer.]

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spruce pine noun

1. A name given to various American pine trees

2. Extended to some varieties of spruce

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Main Entry: ↑spruce

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spruce pine,

any one of various American pines or hemlocks with light, soft wood, such as the black spruce.