1. Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
   "Spruce trees are common in boreal forests"
    
2. Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
   "Spruce is often used in the construction of acoustic guitars"

1. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
   "a spruce young man";
   - dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty [informal], raffish, rakish, spiffy [N. Amer, informal], snappy [informal], pert

1. Make neat, smart, or trim
   "Spruce up your house for Spring";
   - spruce up, titivate, tittivate [rare], smarten up, slick up [N. Amer], spiff up [N. Amer, informal], smarten
    
2. Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
   "He spruced up for the party";
   - spruce up, slick up [N. Amer], smarten up, smarten

Derived forms: spruces, sprucer, sprucest, sprucing, spruced

See also: fashionable, hip [informal], stylish

Type of: beautify, conifer, coniferous tree, fancify, groom, neaten, prettify, wood

Part of: genus Picea, Picea

Encyclopedia: Spruce, Missouri