picea Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce)
    genus Picea.

WordNet

Pic"e*a noun
Etymology
L., the pitch pine, from pix, picis, pitch.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913