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Norway spruce   /nˈɔrwˌeɪ sprus/   Listen
Norway spruce

noun
1.
Tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones.  Synonym: Picea abies.






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"Norway spruce" Quotes from Famous Books



... John A. Savage, then president of Carroll College, to microscopic examination, but without discovering the slightest trace of any seed, or anything resembling seed, in the several portions carefully examined. The soil, however, contained, in its imbedded place, several large Norway spruce logs, in a more or less perfect state of preservation. But there were no cones, nor chits to cones, to be found in it, although the most rigid examination was made at the time to discover them. That the seeds of these delicate little plants ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright



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