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fir-cones

fir-cones is the plural of fir-cone.

Meaning of fir-cone

Noun

fir-cone (plural fir-cones)

  1. The conical fruit of a fir tree.
    • Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification[.]1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73

Questions about fir-cones

What is fir-cones the plural of?
Fir-cones is the plural of fir-cone.

Words near fir-cones in the dictionary

  1. fir clubmoss
  2. fir clubmosses
  3. fir cone
  4. fir cones
  5. fir-cone
  6. fir-cones
  7. firable
  8. firagana
  9. firangi
  10. firangis
  11. Firbank

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