Plural of spruce
regular plural
The plural of spruce is spruces or spruce.
Forms of spruce
| Singular | spruce /spɹuːs/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | spruces spruce /spɹuːs/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Spruces in a sentence
- An example is the golden buprestid (Buprestis aurulenta), a brilliant copper-colored beetle that bores into living pines, firs, Douglas-fir, spruces, and other conifers in the western mountains.2011, E. C. Pielou, The World of Northern Evergreens, 2nd edition, page 97. From the entry buprestid
- A grove of oaks, sturdy, spreading wide their branches clad in green-bronze leaves, had thrived to the elimination of spruces, except a few giants that could not be choked out.1931, Zane Grey, chapter 14, in Sunset Pass, New York: Pocket Books, page 224. From the entry choke out
Meaning of spruce
- noun 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.
- noun The wood of a spruce.
- noun Made of the wood of the spruce.
Questions about the plural of spruce
- What is the plural of spruce?
- The plural of spruce is spruces or spruce.
- Is spruce countable?
- Spruce is a countable and uncountable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: spruce (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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