Picea
Definition of Picea
: a genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (family Pinaceae) having acicular leaves that are keeled on both surfaces and borne individually on persistent peg-shaped bases and cones that become pendulous and have reflexed scales — see spruce
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Origin and Etymology of picea
New Latin, from Latin, pitch pine, from pic-, pix pitch
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