spruce

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /spɹuːs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
  2. The wood of a spruce. uncountable
  3. Made of the wood of the spruce. attributive,countable,uncountable
    — That spruce table is beautiful!
  4. Prussian leather; pruce. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To arrange neatly; tidy up. usually,with-up
  2. To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance). ambitransitive,usually,with-up
  3. To tease.
形容词 adj.
  1. Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person). comparable
    — Hovv often vvould the Svvaines prepare their Morrice & their May / To haue a ſight of her, vvhen all enamoured vvent their vvay? / The ſprevvſeſt Citie-Lads for her vvould faine the Countrie-aire, / And that their prouder Girles had but adultrate beauties ſvvaire, […]

词形变化

spruces plural spruce plural sprucer comparative sprucest superlative spruces present,singular,third-person sprucing participle,present spruced participle,past spruced past

词汇关系

衍生词
black spruce blue spruce Brewer's spruce Colorado blue spruce Colorado spruce Colorado green spruce dark-bark spruce Engelmann spruce Engelmann's spruce European spruce Ezo spruce green spruce Jezo spruce Koyama's spruce Norway spruce Patton's spruce red spruce Serbian spruce Siberian spruce silverspruce silver spruce Picea pungens) Siskiyou spruce Sitka spruce skunk spruce spruce aphid spruce beer spruce cone spruce grouse spruce hen spruce gum spruceless sprucely spruceness spruce pine sprucery spruce siskin spruce tip sprucify sprucy weeping spruce western spruce budworm white spruce Yeddo spruce Yezo spruce sprucen spruce up unspruced

词源

词源 1
From Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (“Prussia”), from Medieval Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.
词源 2
From Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (“Prussia”), from Medieval Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.
词源 3
From Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (“Prussia”), from Medieval Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.
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