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• The koklas is found in the fir zone and prefers moist woody forests.2023, Aditya Vats, The Garhwal Diaries (page 48). From the entry koklas
• To create a light skiff of snow on a six-foot noble fir, double the recipe.1999, Sara Perry, Christmastime Treats: Recipes and Crafts for the Whole FamilyA Holiday Celebrations Book, Chronicle Books, →ISBN. From the entry skiff
• Of these terms, “big fir” used at Nan-t'ou has a historic origin.1993 March 5 [1992 November 30], “Article Explores KMT 'Vote Buying'”, in JPRS Report: China, number 93-015, United States Joint…. From the entry Nan-t'ou
• Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life. From the entry sain
• Fir trees, pregnant with snowchild, sway heavily in the gilding sun.1979, David Green, A Pacific Crest Odyssey: Walking the Trail from Mexico to Canada, Wilderness Press, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry snowchild
• Every lamp post had a fir tree tied to it—not corpsy old trees but fresh cut firs.1942, Emily Carr, “Christmas”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry corpsy
• "'Twere Juneteenth day," she began reverentially, "when my light firs' broke.1921, Julia Walcott Hoffman, chapter I, in Pearl o’ Great Price or A Woman’s ’Sperience, Chicago, Ill.: Gift and Music Shop, →OCLC, page 11. From the entry juneteenth
• I ignored him and looked around, wondering who preened the conical fir trees on each ledge of the building.2018, J.S. Monroe, The Riot Act. From the entry preen
• I'll git oaf the skag, and Saughton's barry fir hash.1993, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Times Film School, page 68. From the entry po-faced
• On nearby zonal soils it is seral to subalpine fir.1979, Proceedings of the ... Convention of the Society of American Foresters, page 160. From the entry climax
• West coast fir I can take or leave alone.1960 August 8, William M. Clark, “Some Logrolling: Flower Garden Has Its Satisfactions”, in Waterville Morning Sentinel, volume 57, number…. From the entry hemlocky
• Median canaliform onychodystrophy typically presents with the Heller's fir tree deformity and is often associated with severe arterial disease, severe malnutrition, and trauma.2010, John C. Hall, Brian John Hall, Hall's Manual of Skin as a Marker of Underlying Disease, PMPH-USA, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry onychodystrophy
• Fir clubmoss can spread by producing disc shaped vegetative propagules and stag's horn clubmoss can spread by means of creeping stems (stolons).2009, Mike Raine, Nature of Snowdonia, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry stag's-horn clubmoss
• The building interior was Gothic and finished by multiple waxings of the commercial coast woods, redwood, sugar pine, white pine, and Douglas fir.2006, Mary Lou Lyon, Early Cupertino, page 81. From the entry waxing
• The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry tump
• They reached the fir wood which had caused them so much trouble while it was still daylight, and bivouacked in a hollow just above it.1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. From the entry bivouac
• Morning, with rain in the sky, and the forest subtly brooding, and me feeling no bigger than a pea-bug between the roots of my fir.1923, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious. From the entry pea bug
• Why, dat guy ain’t got de firs’ idee about bein’ square wit’ a pal or librul wit’ an ol’ friend in de same line.1916, Jack Lait, “The Canada Kid” (chapter 9), in Beef, Iron and Wine, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, pages 178–179. From the entry double X
• Beyond that there was a lane between ranks of young, balsamy, white-misted firs and then an open pasture field, sere and crispy.1904, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908. From the entry balsamy
• "Throw a couple of turf and a junt of fir on the fire, Dinny, a thaisge, afore ye sit down," he said.1903, Seumas MacManus, A Lad of the O'Friels, page 43. From the entry junt
• An example is the golden buprestid (Buprestis aurulenta), a brilliant copper-colored beetle that bores into living pines, firs, Douglas-fir, spruces, and other conifers in the western mountains.2011, E. C. Pielou, The World of Northern Evergreens, 2nd edition, page 97. From the entry buprestid
• The larch, looking like a scrawny spruce or fir, is unusual for a conifer: it deciduates in the fall , the needles turning yellow before they drop.2007, Jerome Malitz, Susan Malitz, Acadia National Park Dayhiker's Guide: Maine's Coastal Gem, page 9. From the entry deciduate
• The light got red and angry as they dipped into the valley; the firs on the hillcrest stood out black and sharp, and then melted into the gray background.1917, Harold Bindloss, Carmen's Messenger. From the entry hillcrest
• A forest fire on Hsuehshan, also known as Snow Mountain, was put out Friday afternoon, but not before four hectares of firs and arrow bamboo trees burned to the ground.2008 December 19, “Firs and arrow bamboo lost in forest fire”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2022, Society. From the entry Hsuehshan
• The chief economic resource of the area in the early days was the timber from the fir forest growing on the central range which traverses the whole of Nan-t'ou County.1993 March 5 [1992 November 30], “Article Explores KMT 'Vote Buying'”, in JPRS Report: China, number 93-015, United States Joint…. From the entry Nan-t'ou

Meaning of fir

1. noun A conifer of the genus Abies.
2. noun Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
3. noun Wood of such trees.

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How do you use fir in a sentence?

Fir is used as a noun. For example: “A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.”

What is a short sentence with fir?

“West coast fir I can take or leave alone.”

What does fir mean?

Fir means a conifer of the genus Abies.