white spruce

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   medium-sized spruce of northeastern North America having short blue-green leaves and slender cones

   SynonymsPicea glauca

   Broaderspruce

Questions about white spruce

What does white spruce mean?

white spruce means "medium-sized spruce of northeastern North America having short blue-green leaves and slender cones".

What is another word for white spruce?

Close synonyms include Picea glauca. 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 white spruce a common word?

white 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.