spruce
noun/spruːs/
/spruːs/
- [countable, uncountable] an evergreen forest tree with leaves like needlesTopics Plants and treesc2
- [uncountable] the soft wood of the spruce, used, for example, in making paper
Word Originnoun late Middle English (denoting Prussia or something originating in Prussia): alteration of obsolete Pruce ‘Prussia’. The application to the tree dates from the early 17th cent.
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