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spruce

  • noun
  • spro͞os

Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.

Other meanings

  1. The wood of a spruce.

  2. Made of the wood of the spruce.

    “That spruce table is beautiful!”

A kind of

  • wood

Word history

From Middle English "Spruce".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “spruce” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.