1. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
   - dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy

1. Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork 
2. Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

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

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

See also: fashionable, sprucely, spruceness, stylish

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

Part of: genus Picea, Picea

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