engelmann's spruce

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   tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown; wood used for rough lumber and boxes

   SynonymsEngelmann sprucePicea engelmannii

   Broaderspruce

Questions about engelmann's spruce

What does engelmann's spruce mean?

engelmann's spruce means "tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown; wood used for rough lumber and boxes".

What is another word for engelmann's spruce?

Close synonyms include Engelmann spruce, Picea engelmannii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is engelmann's spruce a common word?

engelmann's spruce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.