silver fir


noun
  1. a coniferous tree, Abies alba, native to Europe, the young branches of which are covered with grayish fuzz.

Origin of silver fir

1
First recorded in 1700–10

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How to use silver fir in a sentence

  • No tree takes the snow stress with such ease as the silver fir.

  • Close to the long stone wall shone the silver-fir that shielded the bee-city against the west wind.

  • Such a sight may be seen in Europe among the high silver-fir forests of the Pyrenees.

  • The floor was bedded down a foot deep with springy silver fir boughs, laid butts down and toward the foot.

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  • They had left the silver fir belt and were in the region of dwarfed mountain pines.

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British Dictionary definitions for silver fir

silver fir

noun
  1. any of various fir trees the leaves of which have a silvery undersurface, esp Abies alba, an important timber tree of central and S Europe

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