épinette de Sitka

Traductions

• anglais

  Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1995

  Définition

  A tall spruce (Picea sitchensis) of the northern Pacific coast having loosely scaled thin reddish brown bark and flat needles.

  Notes :

  The Sitka spruce is native to the western coast of North America. This species is somewhat unusual in having thick, flattened leaves. Sitka spruce wood is soft and light. Specially grown, highly resonant timbers are used for piano sounding boards. It is the largest of the new world spruce representatives, trees 4 feet in diameter and 200 feet tall being common.
  
  Silver spruce designates any of several spruces of western North America with pale or glaucous leaves as : a : COLORADO SPRUCE; b: SITKA SPRUCE; c : ENGELMANN SPRUCE.

  Termes :

  1. Sitka spruce
  2. tideland spruce
  3. silver spruce

• latin

  Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1995

  Termes :

  1. Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.
  2. Picea sitchensis Carr.
  3. Picea sitchensis