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Definition of Big-cone spruce
1. Noun. Douglas fir of California having cones 4-8 inches long.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Big-cone Spruce
Literary usage of Big-cone spruce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"big-cone spruce is a tree 30 to 90 feet tall with a broad pyramidal crown and
very long lower branches. The bark is dark or black. ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"(P. mucronata) DOUGLAS SPRUCE AA. Leaves sharp, blue-grey, cones large, with
shorter bracts. (P. macrocarpa) BIG CONE SPRUCE The ..."
3. Forestry and Irrigation. V. 11, No. 8: Forest and Water Problems of California by E. J. Allen, W. E. Colby, Samuel Fortier, T. C. Friedlander, William F. Hubbard, Joseph Barlow Lippincott, T. P. Lukens, E. Mead, Walter Curran Mendenhall, F. N. Newell, Gifford Pinchot, A. F. Potter, E. A. Sterling, H. Wright (1905)
"The big cone spruce which once covered the greater area of our mountains below
5.000 feet, and is indigenous only in Southern California, is in great favor ..."
4. General Botany for Universities and Colleges by Hiram Delos Densmore (1920)
"Ripe cones of big-cone spruce in the Cleveland National Forest, California
Photograph by the United States Forest Service ..."
5. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"We make camp under the long- spreading branches of a big-cone spruce (Pseudotsuga
macrocarpa). All around us is a dense growth of chaparral, ..."
6. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The genus includes one other species, the much less important Big Cone
Spruce (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa) of California, which yields an inferior wood. ..."
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