fir tree

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Noun

fir tree - any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas

true fir, fir

Abies, genus Abies - true firs

fir - nonresinous wood of a fir tree

silver fir - any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath

Abies bracteata, Abies venusta, bristlecone fir, Santa Lucia fir - a pyramidal fir of southwestern California having spiny pointed leaves and cone scales with long spines

fir cone - the seed-producing cone of a fir tree

conifer, coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones

Translations

شَجَر التَّنُّوب

jedle

grantræ

kuusi

bor

もみ

전나무

barrträd

ต้นเฟอร์

köknar ağacı

cây linh sam

杉树

fir tree

n → Tannenbaum m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fir tree

→ شَجَر التَّنُّوب jedle grantræ Tanne έλατο abeto kuusi sapin bor abete もみ 전나무 spar grantre jodła abeto ель barrträd ต้นเฟอร์ köknar ağacı cây linh sam 杉树

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Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir Tree. The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him: as to fresh air, there was enough of that, and round him grew many large-sized comrades, pines as well as firs.

This happened every year; and the young Fir Tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognised; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.

When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down: trees which often were not even as large or of the same age as this Fir Tree, who could never rest, but always wanted to be off.

"And then?" asked the Fir Tree, trembling in every bough.

We don't want the others." Then two servants came in rich livery and carried the Fir Tree into a large and splendid drawing-room.

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They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir tree.

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The Thing itself lay almost entirely buried in sand, amidst the scattered splinters of a fir tree it had shivered to frag- ments in its descent.

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The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.

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Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.

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All the shrubs, fir trees, stables, houses, etc., seem to be bent in a slanting direction, as by an immense pressure of air.

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There is a big grove of fir trees behind it, two rows of Lombardy poplars down the lane, and a ring of white birches around a very delightful garden.

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The winds were out in their tops, and there is no sweeter music on earth than that which the wind makes in the fir trees at evening.