DCHP-3

Menzies spruce

[< Archibald Menzies, who discovered the species during the Vancouver expedition of 1792]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tall spruce, Picea sitchensis, found on the Pacific slope in British Columbia.

See: Sitka spruce(def. 1)

Quotations

1894
It is in the lower Fraser valley that we first see the Pacific coast forest and are lost in wonder at the height of the Douglas fir, Menzies spruce and the western cedar.
1917
SITKA SPRUCE [is also called] Menzies spruce. . . .