(sylviculture, arboriculuture, horitculture, agriculture, botany, cooking) The new spring growth at the ends of spruce branches. For some species of spruce, these are edible and a traditional foodstuff.

Picea engelmannii, a spruce native to western North America.

plural of Engelmann spruce

The Engelmann spruce, Picea engelmannii / The Colorado blue spruce, Picea pungens / (uncountable) A color, CADFDD

plural of spruce grouse

Choristoneura freemani, a moth that is destructive to coniferous forests in western North America.

plural of western spruce budworm

present participle of spruce up

superlative form of spruce: most spruce

comparative form of spruce: more spruce