fir

1. Fir
   fẽr (Bot) 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.☞ Fir in the Bible means any one of several coniferous trees, including, cedar, cypress, and probably three species of pine.

1. (n) fir
   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. Among the true firs are the silver firs, Abies pectinata of Europe and A. Numidica of the Atlas mountains; the balsam-fir or balm-of-Gilead fir of the Alleghanies, A. balsamea; the balsam-fir or white fir of the Rocky Mountains, A. concolor; the red firs of the Pacific coast, A. nobilis and A. magnifica; the white fir of the same region, A. grandis; and the sacred fir of Mexico, A. religiosa. Of other genera are the Scotch fir, Pinus sylvestris, and the spruce-fir or Norway spruce. Picea excelsa; the red, yellow, or Douglas fir of western America, Pseudotsuga Douglasii; the parasol-fir of Japan, Sciadopitys verticillata; and the plum-fir of Chili, Podocarpus Andina. The gnetaceous genera Ephedra and Gnetum are known as joint-firs.
2. (n) fir
   The she-balsam or Fraser fir, Abies Fraseri, of the more southern Appalachian Mountains.
3. (n) fir
   Same as alpine fir.
4. (n) fir
   Same as Shasta fir.
5. (n) fir
   The Douglas spruce.
6. (n) fir
   Same as Algerian fir.
7. (n) fir
   Same as bristle-cone fir.
8. (n) fir
   Same as grand fir.
9. (n) fir
   Same as Fraser fir.
10. (n) fir
    Same as white fir.
11. (n) fir
    Same as Shasta fir.
12. (n) fir
    Abies amabilis, distinguished as red silver fir.
13. (n) fir
    Abies Pichta, sometimes called Siberian silver fir.
14. (n) fir
    The king-pine, Abies Webbiana, often called Webb's silver fir. See king-pine, under pine.
15. (n) fir
    Same as grand fir.
16. (n) fir
    Same as lovely fir.
17. (n) fir
    An abbreviation of firkin.

1. (n) Fir
   fėr the name of several species of cone-bearing, resinous trees, valuable for their timber

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