Fir

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies, having single flattened needles and erect cones with deciduous scales.
  • n. Any of several similar or related trees, such as the Douglas fir.
  • n. The wood of these trees.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A conifer of the genus Abies.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A coniferous tree, properly of the genus Abies, in distinction from the spruce (Picea): a term also applied, more loosely, to trees of other genera, as Picea and Pinus. See Abies.
  • n. The she-balsam or Fraser fir, Abies Fraseri, of the more southern Appalachian Mountains.
  • n. Same as alpine fir.
  • n. Same as Shasta fir.
  • n. The Douglas spruce.
  • n. Same as Algerian fir.
  • n. Same as bristle-cone fir.
  • n. Same as grand fir.
  • n. Same as Fraser fir.
  • n. Same as white fir.
  • n. Same as Shasta fir.
  • n. Abies amabilis, distinguished as red silver fir.
  • n. Abies Pichta, sometimes called Siberian silver fir.
  • n. The king-pine, Abies Webbiana, often called Webb's silver fir. See king-pine, under pine.
  • n. Same as grand fir.
  • n. Same as lovely fir.
  • n. An abbreviation of firkin.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas
  • n. nonresinous wood of a fir tree
  • Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    balsam fir    silver fir    red fir   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fir tree   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Burr    Fleur    Fur    Kerr    Monsieur    Shir    Sir    Spur    Thur    Ur   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    birch    cedar    larch    maple    evergreen    hickory    sycamore    yew    juniper    pine