picea abies

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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

   SynonymsNorway spruce

   Broaderspruce

Questions about picea abies

What does picea abies mean?

picea abies 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 picea abies?

Close synonyms include Norway spruce. 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 picea abies a common word?

picea abies 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.