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spruce beer

noun

Etymology

German Sprossenbier. Sprosse (“sprout, shoot”) was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia, or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce.

  1. derived from Sprossenbier

Definitions

  1. A kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce tree.

  2. A spruce-flavored soft drink.

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