silver spruce
silver spruce · silver spruces
Any of various spruce treesAny of various spruce trees: An Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii)
Meaning
3 sensesAny of various spruce trees
(countable, uncountable)An Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii)
(countable, uncountable)A Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens)
(uncountable)A grayish pale blue.
More definitions
- tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward
Origin
From being a silvery spruce tree.From being a silvery spruce tree.
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Forms
plural: silver spruces| Singular | silver spruce |
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Synonyms
8 synonymswhite spruceblue sprucegreen spruceColorado sprucemountain sprucesilverspruce
Close in meaning
- tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward:Colorado spruceColorado blue sprucePicea pungens
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable