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Picea

noun

a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce)

• Syn: ↑genus Picea

• Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Pinaceae, ↑family Pinaceae, ↑pine family

• Member Meronyms: ↑spruce

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\\ˈpisēə, ˈpīs-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, pitch pine, from pic-, pix pitch

: a genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (family Pinaceae) having acicular leaves that are keeled on both surfaces and borne individually on persistent peg-shaped bases and cones that become pendulous and have reflexed scales — see spruce

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Picea /pisˈi-ə or pīˈsi-ə/

noun

The spruce genus of conifers

ORIGIN: L picea pitch pine, from pix pitch

Useful english dictionary. 2012.