WHITE SPRUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white spruce mean? 

• WHITE SPRUCE (noun)
  The noun WHITE SPRUCE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WHITE SPRUCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE SPRUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Picea glauca; white spruce

Hypernyms ("white spruce" is a kind of...):

spruce (any coniferous tree of the genus Picea)

 Context examples 

The habitats and ranges of snowshoe hares and white spruces overlap.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

In Alaska's far north, it's become the race of the white spruce tree and the snowshoe hare.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)