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spruce pine

1. (Plants) a large pine tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern US

2. (Plants) any of several similar plants, such as certain pines, hemlocks, and spruces

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spruce′ pine`

1. a tall pine tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having furrowed gray bark and needles in bundles of two.

2. any of several other pines, spruces, and hemlocks.

[1675–85, Amer.]

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Noun	1.	spruce pine - common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood Canadian hemlock, eastern hemlock, Tsuga canadensis hemlock tree, hemlock - an evergreen tree
	2.	spruce pine - small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood black spruce, Picea mariana spruce - any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
	3.	spruce pine - shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares lodgepole, lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, shore pine pine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree
	4.	spruce pine - large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood Pinus glabra pine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree

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