1. Large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood
   "Spruce pines are common in coastal plain forests";
   - Pinus glabra
    
2. Common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
   "spruce pines provided shade along the stream";
   - eastern hemlock, Canadian hemlock, Tsuga canadensis
    
3. Small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
   "spruce pine dominated the wet lowlands";
   - black spruce, Picea mariana
    
4. Shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares
   "spruce pines grow twisted by constant ocean winds";
   - shore pine, lodgepole, lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta

Derived forms: spruce pines

Type of: hemlock, hemlock tree, pine, pine tree, spruce, true pine

Encyclopedia: Spruce pine