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| spruce [ sprooss ] (plural spruc·es or spruce) |
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1. evergreen tree: an evergreen tree of the pine family with a pyramid shape, short needles, drooping cones, and soft light wood. Genus Picea.
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2. spruce wood: the soft light wood of a spruce tree
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| [Early 17th century. Shortening of Spruce fir "Prussian fir" < alteration of obsolete Pruce "Prussia" < medieval Latin Prussia] |
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