picea
NounSynonyms:
genus Picea
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Noun (1)
- a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce)Synonyms: genus PiceaType of gymnosperm genusMember of Pinaceae, family PinaceaeMembers spruce
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pic′e·a noun
Origin: L., the pitch pine, from pix, picis, pitch.
Botany A genus of coniferous trees of the northern 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54