picea : Idioms & Phrases


genus picea

  • noun a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce)
    Picea.
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picea abies

  • noun tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones
    Norway spruce.
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picea breweriana

  • noun medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon having pendulous branches
    Brewer's spruce; weeping spruce.
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picea engelmannii

  • noun tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown; wood used for rough lumber and boxes
    Engelmann spruce; Engelmann's spruce.
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picea glauca

  • noun medium-sized spruce of northeastern North America having short blue-green leaves and slender cones
    white spruce.
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picea mariana

  • noun small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
    spruce pine; black spruce.
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picea obovata

  • noun tall spruce of northern Europe and Asia; resembles Norway spruce
    Siberian spruce.
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picea orientalis

  • noun evergreen tree of the Caucasus and Asia Minor used as an ornamental having pendulous branchlets
    oriental spruce.
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picea pungens

  • noun tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward
    Colorado spruce; Colorado blue spruce; silver spruce.
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picea rubens

  • noun medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood
    yellow spruce; eastern spruce; red spruce.
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picea sitchensis

  • noun a large spruce that grows only along the northwestern coast of the United States and Canada; has sharp stiff needles and thin bark; the wood has a high ratio of strength to weight
    Sitka spruce.
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