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medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood

: a coniferous tree (Picea rubens) of eastern No. America having deeply furrowed brown or purplish bark and in two rows short-stalked blunt dark green needles which are lighter beneath and being the chief lumber spruce of the area and important as a source of pulp wood — called also eastern spruce, yellow spruce

a spruce, Picea rubens, of eastern North America, having reddish-brown bark and cones and yielding a light, soft wood used for pulp, in the construction of boxes, etc.

[1770-80]

red spruce,

an important commercial spruce that grows between Nova Scotia and North Carolina, and as far west as Tennessee. It has dark-red bark and its wood is used for pulp and lumber.