spruce
/spɹuːs/ noun C1- 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.
- The wood of a spruce.
- Made of the wood of the spruce. · That spruce table is beautiful!
Plural spruces
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Beyond it was a hill, green and feathery with spruce and fir; there was a gap in it where the gray gable end of the little house she had seen from the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters was visible.
That bridge led Anne’s dancing feet up over a wooded hill beyond, where perpetual twilight reigned under the straight, thick-growing firs and spruces; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate “June bells,” those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms, and a few pale, aerial starflowers, like the spirits of last year’s blossoms.
Down in the valley the path came out to the main road and then it was just up the spruce hill to the school.
Bell’s spruce grove over the hill and across his big pasture field.
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