spruce : Idioms & Phrases

• noun douglas fir of California having cones 4-8 inches long
  Pseudotsuga macrocarpa; big-cone douglas fir.
  

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• noun small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
  black spruce; Picea mariana.
  

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• noun medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon having pendulous branches
  Picea breweriana; Brewer's spruce.
  

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• noun tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward
  Colorado spruce; Colorado blue spruce; Picea pungens.
  

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• noun tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward
  Colorado spruce; Colorado blue spruce; Picea pungens.
  

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• noun lofty douglas fir of northwestern North America having short needles and egg-shaped cones
  douglas hemlock; douglas pine; Oregon fir; green douglas fir; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Oregon pine.
  

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• (Bot.), a valuable timber tree (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) of Northwestern America.

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• noun medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood
  Picea rubens; eastern spruce; red spruce.
  

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• noun tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown; wood used for rough lumber and boxes
  Picea engelmannii; Engelmann spruce.
  

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• noun tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown; wood used for rough lumber and boxes
  Picea engelmannii; Engelmann spruce.
  

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• a thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), a graceful coniferous tree (Tsuga Canadensis) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather.

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• noun tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones
  Picea abies.
  

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• noun evergreen tree of the Caucasus and Asia Minor used as an ornamental having pendulous branchlets
  Picea orientalis.
  

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• noun medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood
  Picea rubens; eastern spruce; red spruce.
  

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• noun tall spruce of northern Europe and Asia; resembles Norway spruce
  Picea obovata.
  

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• noun tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward
  Colorado spruce; Colorado blue spruce; Picea pungens.
  

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• noun a large spruce that grows only along the northwestern coast of the United States and Canada; has sharp stiff needles and thin bark; the wood has a high ratio of strength to weight
  Picea sitchensis.
  

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• noun small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree
  Dendroctonus rufipennis.
  
  • the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests

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• noun a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)
  

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• . G. sprossenbier; sprosse sprout, shoot (akin to E. sprout, n.) + bier beer. The word was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia (OE. Spruce), or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. See Sprout, n., Beer, and cf. Spruce, n. A kind of beer which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction.

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• noun a variety of adelgid
  Adelges abietis.
  

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• noun North American grouse that feeds on evergreen buds and needles
  Canachites canadensis.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Spruce partridge, below.

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• . See Spruce, n., 3.

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• (Zoöl.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; called also Canada grouse.

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• noun common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
  Tsuga canadensis; eastern hemlock; Canadian hemlock.
  
• noun small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
  black spruce; Picea mariana.
  
• noun shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares
  shore pine; Pinus contorta; lodgepole; lodgepole pine.
  
• noun large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood
  Pinus glabra.
  

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• noun of northern United States and Canada
  Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; American red squirrel; Sciurus hudsonicus; red squirrel.
  

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• verb make neat, smart, or trim
  tittivate; smarten up; slick up; titivate; spruce; spiff up.
  
  • Spruce up your house for Spring
  • titivate the child
• verb dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
  spruce; slick up; smarten up.
  
  • He spruced up for the party

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• adjective satellite dressed in fancy or formal clothing
  dolled up; dressed; togged up; spiffed up; dressed to the nines; dressed-up; dressed to kill.
  

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• noun medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon having pendulous branches
  Picea breweriana; Brewer's spruce.
  

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• noun medium-sized spruce of northeastern North America having short blue-green leaves and slender cones
  Picea glauca.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Spruce, n., 1.

Webster 1913

• noun medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood
  Picea rubens; eastern spruce; red spruce.
  

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