norway spruce

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   tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones

   SynonymsPicea abies

   Broaderspruce

Questions about norway spruce

What does norway spruce mean?

norway spruce means "tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones".

What is another word for norway spruce?

Close synonyms include Picea abies. 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 norway spruce a common word?

norway 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.