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Spruce
Evergreen tree belonging to the genus Picea of the pine family. The needles are single, usually four-sided, and borne on little peglike projections; the cones are pendulous. Resin ducts in the wood may be seen with a magnifying lens, but they are fewer than in Pinus.
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