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SPRUCE PINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood
Synonyms:
Pinus glabra; spruce pine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spruce pine" is a kind of...):
pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares
Synonyms:
lodgepole; lodgepole pine; Pinus contorta; shore pine; spruce pine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("spruce pine" is a kind of...):
pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
Synonyms:
black spruce; Picea mariana; spruce pine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("spruce pine" is a kind of...):
spruce (any coniferous tree of the genus Picea)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
Synonyms:
Canadian hemlock; eastern hemlock; spruce pine; Tsuga canadensis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("spruce pine" is a kind of...):
hemlock; hemlock tree (an evergreen tree)
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