Spruce



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.云杉; adj.整洁的
• ［英］ adj.整洁的 ( neat or smart;trim)
• ［例］ You've looking very spruce in your new suit.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (spruced; sprucing)

• Date: 1594
• transitive verb
  • to make spruce — often used with up
• intransitive verb
  • to make oneself spruce <spruce up a bit>

II. adjective (sprucer; sprucest)

• Etymology: perhaps from obsolete English Spruce leather leather imported from Prussia
• Date: 1599
• neat or smart in appearance ; trim
• ? sprucely adverb
• ? spruceness noun

III. noun (plural spruces; also spruce)

• Etymology: obsolete Spruce Prussia, from Middle English, alteration of Pruce, from Anglo-French
• Date: 1670
• 1.
  • a. any of a genus (Picea) of evergreen trees of the pine family with a conical head of dense foliage, flat or 4-sided needles, pendulous cones, and soft light wood
  • b. any of several coniferous trees (as Douglas fir) of similar habit
• 2. the wood of a spruce

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