blue spruce

blue spruce
noun
1.
a. : colorado spruce; often : a spruce belonging to a horticultural variety derived from the Colorado spruce
2.
a. : a variable color averaging a grayish green that is bluer and darker than average bayberry and bluer, lighter, and stronger than slate green
b. : a moderate green that is bluer and paler than average myrtle (sense 3 a) or average laurel green (sense 1) and less strong than sea green (sense 1 a)

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a spruce, Picea pungens, of western North America, having bluish-green leaves, grown as an ornamental: the state tree of Colorado and Utah. Also called Colorado blue spruce, Colorado spruce.
[1880-85, Amer.]

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n. a North American spruce with sharp, stiff blue-green needles, growing wild in the central Rocky Mountains. Its many cultivated varieties tend to be bluer in color than the wild ones. Also called , Colorado spruce. ● Picea pungens, family Pinaceae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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