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colorado blue spruce

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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.


Origin:
1880–85, Americanism
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blue spruce  
n.  A Rocky Mountain tree (Picea pungens) having silvery-blue or blue-green, four-angled, needlelike leaves and cylindrical cones. It is extensively cultivated as an ornamental. Also called Colorado blue spruce.
Colorado blue spruce  
n.  See blue spruce.
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