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Webster 1913 Edition


Picea


Pic′e-a

,
Noun.
[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.

Definition 2024


Picea

Picea

See also: picea and pícea

Translingual

Picea abies, a species of spruce (tree)

Proper noun

Picea f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pinaceae – the spruces.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

picea

picea

See also: Picea and pícea

Latin

Noun

picea f (genitive piceae); first declension

  1. spruce, pitch pine

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative picea piceae
genitive piceae piceārum
dative piceae piceīs
accusative piceam piceās
ablative piceā piceīs
vocative picea piceae

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