spruces
Pointy Christmas trees
Spruces are coniferous evergreen trees with short, stiff needles and drooping cones, common in northern forests.
The wood is used for construction, paper pulp, and musical instruments.
As a verb, spruces means tidies up or makes neat: She spruced up the living room before guests arrived.
He spruced himself up for the interview.
evergreen
Retains foliage year-round
conifer · taiga · boreal · needle · timber · lumber · forest · woodland · Christmas tree · bough
neatens
Makes orderly
polishes · primps · cleans · declutters · straightens · arranges · brightens · refreshes · revamps · fixes
- plantstree, plants, leaves, bluebonnet, trees
- forest featurespine trees, redwoods, old-growth forest, oak trees, sequoias
- plant groupsangiosperms, gymnosperms, monocots, dicots, flowering plants
- mountainsmountain, peaks, peak, summit, summits
- alpine zonesalpine meadow, alpine lakes, treeline, timberline, snowfields
- spore plantsferns, fern, mosses, liverwort, hornwort
tree classification
sprucesdeciduous trees
Plants shedding leaves annually
broadleaves · hardwoods · oaks · maples · palms
- spruce upMake neater or smarter
- sprucing upMaking neater or smarter
- spruced upMade more attractive
- spruce forestWoodland of cone-bearing evergreens
- spruce treesCone-bearing evergreen genus
- blue spruceSilvery-needled ornamental conifer