Picea

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Picea \Pic"e*a\, n. [L., the pitch pine, from pix, picis,
     pitch.] (Bot.)
     A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere,
     including the Norway spruce and the American black and white
     spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily
     fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the


     firs.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Picea
       n : a genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce)
           [syn: {genus Picea}]