tsuga canadensis

1. 1.

   common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood

   Synonymseastern hemlockCanadian hemlockspruce pine

   Broaderhemlock

Questions about tsuga canadensis

What does tsuga canadensis mean?

tsuga canadensis means "common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood".

What is another word for tsuga canadensis?

Close synonyms include eastern hemlock, Canadian hemlock, spruce pine. 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 tsuga canadensis a common word?

tsuga canadensis 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.