Spruces

Word SPRUCES
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Definitions and meanings of "Spruces"

What do we mean by spruces?

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.

The wood of a spruce.

(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.

Prussian leather; pruce.

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The word "spruces" in example sentences

She is a teacher at a junior college, which kind of spruces junior colleges up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All was garmented by vegetation, from tiny maiden-hair and gold-back ferns to mighty redwood and Douglas spruces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On July 22, he set off a car bomb that killed eight people in downtown Oslo's government district, then drove north to a youth camp on Utoya, a small lake island set amid a quiet countryside of pines and spruces. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Heinz ketchup spruces up label with a tomato - USATODAY. com ❋ Unknown (2009)

This time he spruces up cottage pie with butternut squash and turkey mince, agonises over basil that's not basily enough and cooks an updated beans on toast. ❋ Martin Skegg (2010)

He measured with his eye spruces five and six feet in diameter and redwoods even larger. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Disney's animation salon spruces up the Rapunzel fairytale. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"I have become quite fond of the Alpine spruces," he says. ❋ Corinna Da (2011)

DuPont last week said it was considering removing the product from the market after an EPA investigation found it inadvertently harming nearby Norway spruces and white pines. ❋ Drew FitzGerald (2011)

From among the gloomy spruces came the light carolling of Fairfax's voice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was replanted with spruces and pines that grow quickly, but this meant the loss of much wild-life because the habitat had changed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are no people, just the occasional automobile sliding between the Norway spruces. ❋ Greg Donaldson (2010)

A clump of straggly spruces tremble by the side of a placid lake, like a skeletal family tentatively approaching the chilly waters. ❋ Donald Sturrock (2010)

The following year, a second pair of Norway spruces made the trip from the Peter Stuyvesant estate in Allamuchy, New York, to take their place of honor in the plaza. ❋ Nancy Armstrong (2010)

The year 1956 ushered in a trend of white spruces that lasted for three consecutive holiday seasons. ❋ Nancy Armstrong (2010)

Rather than chopping the spruces off of their trunks, gardeners dug them out of the ground and bound their roots in burlap for their stint in the plaza. ❋ Nancy Armstrong (2010)

For tight areas such as by my drive I use dwarf Alberta spruces (Picea glauca, zones 3-8), which rarely get more than six or seven feet high and about four feet wide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But pines, spruces, hemlocks and most other evergreens tend to become giants over time, outgrowing their spaces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unbroken barriers work best to reduce noise, but to acquire some semblance of year-round noise reduction from plants, use mixes of evergreens, including arborvitaes, spruces, pines and hollies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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