Definition of Sitka spruce

1. Noun. A large spruce that grows only along the northwestern coast of the United States and Canada; has sharp stiff needles and thin bark; the wood has a high ratio of strength to weight.

Exact synonyms: Picea Sitchensis
Generic synonyms: Spruce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sitka Spruce

Sistrunk operation
Sistrurus
Sistrurus catenatus
Sistrurus miliaris
Sisymbrium barbarea
Sisymbrium officinale
Sisymbrium tanacetifolia
Sisyphean
Sisyphism
Sisyphus
Sisyphusean
Sisyridae
Sisyrinchium
Sita
Sitka
Sitka spruce
Sitka willow
Sitophylus
Sitophylus oryzae
Sitotroga
Sitotroga cerealella
Sitsang
Sitta
Sitta canadensis
Sitta carolinensis
Sitta europaea
Sittidae
Sitting Bull
Sitwell
Sitwellian

Literary usage of Sitka spruce

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. EcoRegions of Alaska by Alisa L. Gallant (1998)
"Needleleaf forest stands are dominated by hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla or T. mertensiana) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) or by sitka spruce (Picea ..."

2. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"sitka spruce (local and com- Menzies Spruce. mon name). Western Spruce. Tideland Spruce (Cal., Oreg., Great Tideland Spruce. Wash.). Locality. ..."

3. Adventure Guide to the Inside Passage and Coastal Alaska by Lynn Readicker-Henderson (2002)
"sitka spruce lives 500-700 years. Its leaves are dark green needles, about an inch long, and they cover all the branches. At the top of the tree, ..."

4. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Identifying Trees sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis). Alaska's state tree, the Sitka spruce grows-225 feet high, up to eight feet in diameter, ..."

5. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"These preferred stands included the following site associations: ( 1 ) valley bottom, western red cedar/sitka spruce - foamflower (mean diameter at breast ..."

6. Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters by Society of American Foresters (1912)
"... (b) by favoring the most valuable species (sitka spruce), and alter the type by encouraging the growth of spruce and cleaning out some of the hemlock. ..."

7. The Armies of Industry: Our Nation's Manufacture of Munitions for a World in by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"New England spruce is not clear timber like sitka spruce, but is full of pin knots; and the manufacturers hesitated to use it on that score. ..."

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