blue spruce


blue spruce

n. A spruce (Picea pungens) of the Rocky Mountains, having silvery-blue or blue-green four-angled needles and cylindrical cones. It is cultivated as an ornamental. Also called Colorado blue spruce.

blue spruce

n (Plants) a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves. Also called: balsam spruce

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n. a spruce, Picea pungens, of W North America, having bluish green leaves, grown as an ornamental. [1880–85]