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Definition of Red spruce
1. Noun. Medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Spruce
Literary usage of Red spruce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... THE red spruce (Picea rubens) Bright red downy twigs, red wood and reddish
bark give this tree its name. Short, stiff, pointed, 4-angled leaves set all ..."
2. The Materials of Engineering by Robert Henry Thurston (1884)
"The red spruce Fir (Abies rubra), or Newfoundland Red Pine, as it is also called,
grows in the north-east portions of North America, and affords an ..."
3. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"red spruce. 2. Branch with staminate flowers, x i. 1. Branch with pistillate
flowers, x Î. 3. Branch with needles and cones, x Î. 4. ..."
4. Forestry in New England: A Handbook of Eastern Forest Management by Ralph Chipman Hawley, Austin Foster Hawes (1912)
"red spruce (Picea rubens). This is a distinctly eastern species of the cooler
regions, extending west from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, nearly through New ..."
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