"spruce tip" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spruce tips [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} spruce tip (plural spruce tips)
  1. (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. Categories (topical): Agriculture, Botany, Cooking Synonyms: conifer tip, pine tip (english: all pine-like trees) Hypernyms: conifer tip, pine tip (english: all pine-like trees) Related terms: spruce bark, spruce beer, spruce cone, spruce gum, spruce nut, spruce tea
    Sense id: en-spruce_tip-en-noun-Aj1X5Y1w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Topics: agriculture, biology, botany, business, cooking, food, lifestyle, natural-sciences
  2. (by extension) Synonym of conifer tip Tags: broadly Synonyms: conifer tip [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-spruce_tip-en-noun-aN8Qp-t6

Inflected forms

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