समशीतोष्ण और आर्कटिक सदाबहार पेड़ों का एक जीनस (स्प्रूस देखें)

picea's Usage Examples:

The wood is inferior to that of Picea excelsa, but, being soft and easily worked, is largely employed in the countries to which it is indigenous for all the purposes of carpentry.

The white spruce (Picea alba), sometimes met with in English plantations, is a tree of lighter growth than the black spruce, the branches being more widely apart; the foliage is of a light glaucous green; the small light-brown cones are more slender and tapering than in P. nigra, and the scales have even edges.

The black spruce (Picea nigra) is a tree of more formal growth than the preceding.

The Norway spruce seems to have been the "Picea" of Pliny, but is evidently often confused by the Latin writers with their "Abies," the Abies pectinate of modern botanists.

Spruce Fir (Picea excelsa B, Cone and foliage.

- Norway Spruce (Picea excelsa).

The most important of the firs, in an economic sense, is the Norway spruce (Picea excelsa), so well known in British plantations, though rarely attaining there the gigantic height and grandeur of form it often displays in its native woods.

In the spruce firs (Picea), the cones are pendent when mature and their scales persistent; the leaves are arranged all round the shoots, though the lower ones are sometimes directed laterally.

FIR, the Scandinavian name originally given to the Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris), but at present not infrequently employed as a general term for the whole of the true conifers (Abietineae); in a more exact sense, it has been transferred to the "spruce" and "silver firs," the genera Picea and A bies of most modern botanists.

Coniferous forest formations, e.g., of Pinus sylvestris, Picea f~

picea's Meaning':

a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce

Synonyms:

genus Picea, family Pinaceae, gymnosperm genus, spruce, pine family, Pinaceae,

Antonyms:

unfashionable, uglify,