Function: noun
Date: 1770
1 : any of several spruces especially : a widely distributed spruce ( Picea glauca ) of coniferous forests of Canada and the northern U.S. that has short stiff blue-green needles and slender cones ― see CONE illustration
2 : the wood of a white spruce especially : the light pale tough straight-grained wood of the common white spruce ( Picea glauca ) used especially for construction and as a source of paper pulp