white spruce

noun

medium-sized spruce of northeastern North America having short blue-green leaves and slender cones

• Syn: ↑Picea glauca

• Hypernyms: ↑spruce

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noun

1. : any of several spruces: as

a. : a No. American spruce (Picea glauca) with short blue-green leaves and slender cones

b. : engelmann spruce

2. : the wood of a white spruce; especially : the light pale tough straight-grained wood of the common white spruce (Picea glauca) which is used for construction and as a source of paper pulp

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1. a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.

2. the light, soft wood of this tree, used for pulp and in the construction of boxes, crates, etc.

[1760-70]

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white spruce,

1. a spruce of northern North America with light gray bark and unpleasant smelling foliage. It may reach a height of 150 feet.

2. its light, strong wood, used for paper pulp and to make wooden containers.

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n. a North American spruce with yellow-green or blue-green needles and cylindrical cones, found principally in Canada. ● Picea glauca, family Pinaceae