Definitions for spruces

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spruces spruce

Spelling: [sproos]

IPA: /sprus/

Spruces is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in spruces (ceprssu).

Definitions for spruces

noun

1. any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales.
2. any of various allied trees, as the Douglas fir and the hemlock spruce.
3. the wood of any such tree.

adjective

1. made from the wood of a spruce tree or trees.
2. containing or abounding in spruce trees.
3. trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.

verb (used with object)

1. to make spruce or smart (often followed by up):

verb (used without object)

1. to make oneself spruce (usually followed by up).

Origin of spruces

1350-1400; Middle English, special use of Spruce, sandhi variant of Pruce Old French Pruce Medieval Latin Prussia Prussia, whence the timber came

Examples for spruces

In Long Beach, the good old Queen Mary and spruce Goose could finally sail again.

It was said that all the dogs retired to the nests of spruce bough; it should have been all but one.

That's why you are become so well-dressed, Horatio; I wondered how you came to spruce up so!

Along the edge of the green pines and spruce were lavender asters.

Unfortunately, the FDNY is too busy to tell you how to avoid turning your 10-foot spruce into a 10-foot match.

Pour sixteen gallons of warm water into a barrel, with twelve pounds of molasses, and half a pound of the essence of spruce.

I presume it will be found wherever the spruce tree is a native.

It is found on dead pine, spruce, balsam, and other conifers.

Struts (also of spruce, as is all the framework) are elliptical in shape.

The air was fragrant with spruce and pine and faint, aromatic wintergreen.