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blue spruce

noun

a spruce, Picea pungens, of western North America, having bluish-green leaves, grown as an ornamental: the state tree of Colorado and Utah.

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Also called Colorado blue spruce, Colorado spruce.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism

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blue spruce

—n
	Also called: balsam spruce a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves

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