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2. Verb. (third-person singular of spruce) ¹

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Definition of Spruces

1. spruce [v] - See also: spruce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spruces

Literary usage of Spruces

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"It excels in form and rapidity of growth most of the American spruces. Like all Conifers, after the 25th to 40th year it must pass through a period of ..."

2. The Important Timber Trees of the United States: A Manual of Practical by Simon Bolivar Elliott (1912)
"THE spruces WHEN all things concerning our native spruces are taken into account, ... Until comparatively recent times the spruces were not very favorably ..."

3. The Important Timber Trees of the United States: A Manual of Practical by Simon Bolivar Elliott (1912)
"THE spruces WHEN all things concerning our native spruces are taken into account, ... Until comparatively recent times the spruces were not very favorably ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"spruces are propagated by seeds, which ripen in fall and are usually kept ... The spruces are usually tall trees of pyramidal habit, sometimes dwarfed in ..."

5. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... THE spruces FAMILY CONIFER*: Genus PICEA, Link. PYRAMIDAL cone-bearing evergreens, with tall, tapering trunks and slender horizontal branches ending in ..."

6. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... THE spruces FAMILY CONIFER/E Genus PICEA, Link. PYRAMIDAL cone-bearing evergreens, with tall, tapering trunks and slender horizontal branches ending in ..."

7. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1856)
"OUR AMERICAN FIRS AND spruces. li V WILSON ... THE Firs and spruces are readily distinguished from the ..."

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