spruce pine vs true pine

spruce pine and true pine both are nouns.

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

As nouns, true pine is a hypernym of spruce pine; that is, true 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
true pine: a coniferous tree

Other hypernyms of spruce pine include pine, pine tree.

As nouns, true pine is a hypernym of spruce pine; that is, true 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
true pine: a coniferous tree

Other hypernyms of spruce pine include pine, pine tree.

spruce pine (noun)	true 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
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