Hypernyms for "spruce"
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black spruce
Brewer''s spruce
Colorado blue spruce
Colorado spruce
eastern spruce
Engelmann spruce
Engelmann''s spruce
Norway spruce
oriental spruce
Picea abies
Picea breweriana
Picea engelmannii
Picea glauca
Picea mariana
Picea obovata
Picea orientalis
Picea pungens
Picea rubens
Picea sitchensis
red spruce
Siberian spruce
silver spruce
Sitka spruce
spruce pine
weeping spruce
white spruce
yellow spruce
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.