silver spruce

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   tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward

   SynonymsColorado spruceColorado blue sprucePicea pungens

   Broaderspruce

Questions about silver spruce

What does silver spruce mean?

silver spruce means "tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward".

What is another word for silver spruce?

Close synonyms include Colorado spruce, Colorado blue spruce, Picea pungens. 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 silver spruce a common word?

silver 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.