red spruce

red spruce

n. An eastern North American spruce (Picea rubens) having yellow-green needles and reddish-brown cones and inner bark.

red′ spruce′

n. a spruce, Picea rubens, of NE North America, having reddish brown inner bark and yielding a light, soft wood. [1770–80]

Thesaurus

Noun

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red spruce - medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwoodeastern spruce, Picea rubens, yellow sprucespruce - any coniferous tree of the genus Picea