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spruces

spruces is the plural of spruce.

spruces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spruce.

Meaning of spruce

Noun

spruce (countable and uncountable, plural spruces or spruce)

  1. 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.
  2. (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
  3. (attributive) Made of the wood of the spruce.
    • That spruce table is beautiful!
  4. (obsolete) Prussian leather; pruce.

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Phrases with spruces

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Questions about spruces

What is spruces the plural of?
Spruces is the plural of spruce.

Words near spruces in the dictionary

  1. sprucening up
  2. sprucens
  3. sprucens up
  4. sprucer
  5. sprucery
  6. spruces
  7. spruces up
  8. sprucest
  9. sprucey
  10. sprucier
  11. spruciest

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