spruce pine vs pine

spruce pine and pine both are nouns.

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

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

spruce pine: large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood
pine: a coniferous tree

Other hypernyms of spruce pine include pine tree, true pine.

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

spruce pine: shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares
pine: a coniferous tree

Other hypernyms of spruce pine include pine tree, true pine.

spruce pine (noun)	pine (noun)
large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood	a coniferous tree
shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares	straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood

spruce pine (verb)	pine (verb)
	have a desire for something or someone who is not present