silver spruce

Meanings

nounsilver spruce (countable and uncountable, plural silver spruces)

Any of various spruce trees
1. countableuncountableAn Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii)
  Synonyms: white spruce, mountain spruce
2. countableuncountableA Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens)
  Synonyms: blue spruce, green spruce, white spruce, Colorado spruce
uncountableA grayish pale blue.
Synonyms: silverspruce

nounAn Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii)

Similar

white sprucemountain spruce

nounA Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens)

nounA grayish pale blue.

Similar

nountall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward

Broader

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From being a silvery spruce tree.

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