the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A genus of coniferous trees, of the tribe Abietineæ, including the spruce.
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n. a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce)
Word Usage
"Two small mammals are also considered strictly endemic, the Bibundi bat (Chalinolobus egeria) and the pitch shrew (Crocidura picea, CR)."