Picea n 1: a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce) [syn: {Picea}, {genus Picea}]
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]