spruce pine vs hemlock

hemlock vs spruce pine

spruce pine and hemlock both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spruce pine	Yes	No	No	No
hemlock	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hemlock is a hypernym of spruce pine; that is, hemlock is a word with a broader meaning than spruce pine:

spruce pine: common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
hemlock: an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga

Other hypernyms of spruce pine include hemlock tree.

spruce pine (noun)	hemlock (noun)
large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood	an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga
shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares	soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood	large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood	poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium

Difference between spruce pine and hemlock

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