Norway spruce
noun
: a widely cultivated spruce (Picea abies) of northern Europe that has a pyramidal shape, spreading branches and pendulous branchlets, dark foliage, and long pendulous cones
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Researchers have unveiled this connection between microbes in Norway spruce needles and gold nanoparticles that travel from soil, likely near deposits.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Translation is a mug’s game, at best leaving a pale copy of the original: the difference between a black-and-white snapshot of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and the real Norway spruce in living color.
—William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
In a grove of Norway spruce not far from the cabin, a ruffed grouse exploded from a branch directly overhead and gave everyone a start.
—Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
Outside, a towering 55-foot-tall Norway spruce stands on the front lawn, surrounded by 26 illuminated evergreens.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Translation is a mug’s game, at best leaving a pale copy of the original: the difference between a black-and-white snapshot of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and the real Norway spruce in living color.
—William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
In a grove of Norway spruce not far from the cabin, a ruffed grouse exploded from a branch directly overhead and gave everyone a start.
—Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
Outside, a towering 55-foot-tall Norway spruce stands on the front lawn, surrounded by 26 illuminated evergreens.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Norway spruce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Norway%20spruce. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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