Tsuga vs Spruce - What's the difference?
tsuga | spruce |
Tsuga'', a genus of conifers in the family Pinaceae. There are eight, nine, or ten species (depending on the authority), with four species occurring in North America and four to six in eastern Asia. Unlike poison hemlock (''Conium''), the various species of ''Tsuga are not poisonous.
Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea , found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
(uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
(obsolete) Prussia leather; pruce.
* E. Phillips
(comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
* 1919 ,
* 2012 , The Economist, 13th Oct 2012,
To arrange neatly; tidy up.
) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
To tease.
As a proper noun tsuga
is .As a noun spruce is
(obsolete) prussia.tsuga
English
(wikipedia tsuga)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----spruce
English
Noun
(en-noun)- That spruce table is beautiful!
- Spruce , a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather.
See also
* (Spruce) * (Picea)Adjective
(er)- He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.
Plessey returns: Chips with everything
- The two clean rooms, where chips are made, are sprucer than a hospital theatre.
