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A conifer of the genus Abies.
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Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
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Wood of such trees.
Examples of fir in a Sentence
The forests are chiefly composed of oak, fir, pine, ash and alder.
The hills are generally richly wooded, chiefly with fir, beech and oak.
The silver fir does not extend over Russia, and the oak does not cross the Urals.
The lower parts of the Riesengebirge are clad with forests of oak, beech, pine and fir; above 1600 ft.
The Siberian larch predominates also in the alpine tracts fringing the plateau on the north, intermingled with the fir, stone-pine, aspen and birch.
Fir trees and branches from the neighbouring forest are collected and planted in front of the houses, so that for a few hours Hasselt has the appearance of being restored to its primitive condition as a wood.
Lemstrbm believed atmospheric electricity to play an important part in the natural growth of vegetation, and he assigned a special role to the needles of fir and pine trees.
It was at the end of a village that stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were a few fir trees.
The final leg of the journey was a long dirt road that climbed first through a grove of fir followed by an unbroken forest of hardwood just beginning to bud.
The fir appears in the Siberian varieties Picea obovata and P. ayanensis.
Introduced into Britain at the beginning of the 17th century, the silver fir has become common there as a planted tree, though, like the Norway spruce, it rarely comes up from seed scattered naturally.
The eastern portion of the northern plain is covered with forests of fir.
The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.
Far in the distance in that birch and fir forest to the right of the road, the cross and belfry of the Kolocha Monastery gleamed in the sun.
The poles are of red fir, creosoted, this method of preservation being the only one now used for this purpose in the United Kingdom.
From an equally loose application of the word "fir" by our older herbalists, it is difficult to decide upon the date of introduction of this tree into Britain; but it was commonly planted for ornamental purposes in the beginning of the 17th century.
In the drier parts the Scotch fir (Pinus sylvestris) makes its appearance.
East of the Ain, forests of fir and oak abound on the mountains, the lower slopes of which give excellent pasture for sheep and cattle, and much cheese is produced.
In the north, and in the deep valleys through which the streams descend to the plain, there are extensive forests of oak, birch and beech, and in the south, of fir and larch.
Among other characteristic trees are the Spanish pine (Pinus hispanica), the Corsican pine (P. Li,r-icio), the Pinsapo fir (Abies Pinsapo), and the Quercus Tozza, the last belonging to the slopes of the Sierra Nevada.
The hill-sides were clothed with vine and fir, and the rich broad plain of Hermus produced large quantities of corn and saffron.
There is also a considerable cultivation of wood, especially of fir and copse, while tobacco plantations are found at Nykerk and Wageningen.
The forest, with which it is densely covered, consists of oak, beech, ash and fir, and the scenery, especially on the main side, between Gemiinden and Lohr, is impressive.
It is an agricultural district, producing cocoons and tobacco, and there are large forests of oak, beech and fir.
Councilor Donnell expressed concern at a potential bottleneck in the vicinity of the Fir Trees Hotel.
These woods include cedar, cherry, eucalyptus, fir, plum, plywood or spruce.
On the right you will pass a number of young Silver Fir which have coarse, flattened needles set in two ranks.
Do the curious checkered sacks beneath his chin represent fir cones or grapes?
Walking along the bottom path, parallel to the railroad embankment, you will pass several young Douglas Fir in a line.
The majority of these have been taken down to make way fir the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
What he can plant the fir for, God only knows, seeing that the country is already over-stocked with that rubbish.
The Didache does not fir clearly into any period of liturgy or ministry for which we have documentation.
If the robot serves you, you don't get fir enough and you become lazy.
Ash, sycamore, beech, lime, Scots pine and grand fir are among the range of trees that occur.
Siemens (1929) reported dermatitis from the foliage of silver fir; patch tests were not recorded.
My thoughts are green fir, my body is dark pine.
In Canadian forestry high quality red alder logs are said to be approximately equal in value to that of a Douglas fir log.
A florist developed contact dermatitis from the foliage of balsam fir; a patch test produced a positive reaction (Kappes 1948 ).
The island has been famous throughout the centuries for its silver fir trees whose aromatic aroma still pervades parts of the island.
The species are larch, norway and sitka spruce, douglas fir and scots pine.
On Christmas Day morning the log was replaced by a young fir tree to represent rebirth.
On conifers in California, the pathogen causes a needle blight and dieback of young shoots of Douglas fir and coastal redwood.
Fir extra aroma add 25 ml rum to the juices.
An ye sal see hoo a King kin darg, fir his fowk an kin.
It takes you off track into a narrow taped chicane around fir trees, trying to miss stumps on the off side.
Drill a hole into the top of a fir tree twig to create the trunk.
In places suited to its growth it seems to flourish nearly as well as in the woods of Norway or Switzerland; but as it needs for its successful cultivation as a timber tree soils that might be turned to agricultural account, it is not so well adapted for economic planting in Britain as the Scotch fir or larch, which come to perfection in more bleak and elevated regions, and on comparatively barren ground, though it may perhaps be grown to advantage on some moist hill-sides and mountain hollows.
Deficient in resin, the wood is more perishable than that of the spruce fir when exposed to the air, though it is said to stand well under water.
Others have hollow or funnel-shaped ends and are constricted at the middle like a dice cup. In some rocks small rod-like microlites are grouped together in a regular way to form growths which resemble fir branches, fern leaves, brushes or networks, in the same manner as minute needles of ice produce star-like snow crystals or the frost growths on a window pane.
Amongst the forest and other trees are the oak, which yields large quantities of galls, the beech, fir, pine, ash and alder, also the chestnut, walnut and filbert.