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Sitka spruce

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

  See also: Menzies spruce  Sitka deer  tideland spruce   

  • See Sitka deer for origin of Sitka.

  • 1906  . . . in the interior of British Columbia . . . extending to the coast, the giant of the species is found in the Menzies or Sitka spruce.
  • 1962  A 150-foot golden Sitka spruce, believed to be the only one of its kind in the world, stands in a forest on the Yakoun River in British Columbia.

• 2 Fig. the logging camps of B.C.

  • 1928  "Just the morning after you left for the Sitka spruce. . . ."