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silver fir
noun
- a coniferous tree, Abies alba, native to Europe, the young branches of which are covered with grayish fuzz.
silver fir
noun
- 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of silver fir1
Example Sentences
After winding through an old-growth forest dominated by hemlock, silver fir and cedar, at the 1-mile mark, the trail turns into a rock scramble.
"If you want a slimmer tree with a lovely smell, go for a Fraser fir or a silver fir," he says.
Trees that are vulnerable to fire, such as Western hemlock and Pacific silver fir, thrive in these shady sanctuaries.
Huckleberries tend to grow in older clear-cut areas, and around hemlock, beargrass, serviceberry and Pacific silver fir.
The same adelgid was detected in San Francisco in 1928 and has chomped through sub-alpine and silver firs in Idaho, Oregon, California and other areas of the Pacific Northwest in large numbers since the 1950s.
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