WordNet
silver spruce
n. tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward [syn: Colorado spruce, Colorado blue spruce, Picea pungens]
Usage examples of "silver spruce".
A few stately pines stood out from the rocks, and a clump of silver spruce ran down to a brown brook.
The oak swales, the maple thickets, the aspen groves, the pine-shaded aisles, and the miles of silver spruce all sped by her, as if she had ridden the wind.
Yossarian and Milo were covered in their bower by tissue-thin tiers of sloping green and largely surrounded by other gray chestnut trees and a silver spruce.
There were other trees than pines, and particularly one kind, cone-shaped, symmetrical, and bright, which Dick called a silver spruce.