spruce pine

Noun

• large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood

• shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares

• small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood

• common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Pinus glabra , shore pine , lodgepole , lodgepole pine , Pinus contorta , black spruce , Picea mariana , eastern hemlock , Canadian hemlock , Tsuga canadensis