What is spruce?
What is spruce?
- Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Picea, having needlelike foliage, drooping cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp.
- Any of various similar or related trees.
- The wood of any of these trees.
- A grayish green to dark greenish black.
- Neat, trim, and smart in appearance: "a good-looking man; spruce and dapper, and very tidy” ( Anthony Trollope).
- To make neat and trim: spruced up the chairs with new slipcovers.
- To make oneself neat and smart in appearance: He was sprucing for the school dance.