Spruce

Softwood timber from trees in the genus Picea, commercially cut across the northern temperate and boreal forests of North America, Europe and Asia.

Where Spruce sits among every term. Drag to turn; choose a dot to open it.

How it connects

Spruce is a kind of Softwood.

Spruce includes Norway spruce.

Spruce is filed under Wood.

Other kinds of Softwood: Cedar, Cypress, Douglas fir, Fir, Hemlock, Larch, Pine and Redwood.

In other taxonomies

SpruceUniclass, Ma_60_97_81nearly the same

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Where it sits

One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term

Wood

Spruce

9 terms, Cedar to Redwood

Narrower than Spruce

Norway spruce

Record

Broader: Softwood
Narrower: Norway spruce
Provenance: referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); USDA Wood Handbook (2021), chapter 2, read 22 Sep 2026

For machines

Permanent address

/id/material/spruce

This termGET /v1/concepts/material/spruce
The word, every meaningGET /v1/term/spruce

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Knowledge graph

Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.

has-conceptMaterialincoming
has-conceptMaterialincoming
broaderNorway spruceincoming
narrowerSoftwoodincoming
belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
broaderSoftwoodoutgoing
narrowerNorway spruceoutgoing

Derived hierarchy views

ancestor (derived)Softwoodoutgoing
ancestor (derived)Woodoutgoing
descendant (derived)Norway spruceoutgoing
sibling (derived)Cedaroutgoing
sibling (derived)Cypressoutgoing
sibling (derived)Douglas firoutgoing
sibling (derived)Firoutgoing
sibling (derived)Hemlockoutgoing
sibling (derived)Larchoutgoing
sibling (derived)Pineoutgoing
sibling (derived)Redwoodoutgoing

Crosswalks

External mappings and dated negative results for Spruce
Scheme	Identifier	Their label, or the search	How close
Uniclass	Ma_60_97_81	Spruce	nearly the same