red spruce

1. 1.

   medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood

   Synonymseastern spruceyellow sprucePicea rubens

   Broaderspruce

Questions about red spruce

What does red spruce mean?

red spruce means "medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood".

What is another word for red spruce?

Close synonyms include eastern spruce, yellow spruce, Picea rubens. 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 red spruce a common word?

red 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.