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fir

[fur] / fɜr /
NOUN
evergreen
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They also dropped by Pyongyang's top cadre school, where they planted a fir tree symbolising their evergreen friendship, Xinhua reported.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2026

A $5 permit, a hike through the snow, and a glorious Douglas fir we covered in lights.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2025

Ford’s fir and birch-burners are radiant examples of human-made art triumphing over digital manufacture.

From Salon Dec. 18, 2025

Forest is more valuable there than in the South due to high prices for logs from Douglas fir trees that often are exported to Asia.

From Barron's Dec. 16, 2025

Akira loved this time of year, when the air was crisp and cool and smelled like cedar and Douglas fir.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

The Indigenous Rukai people have a poetic name for these immense firs: 'The tree that hits the moon'.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Would retaining a subset of old firs help new ones to thrive?

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

Across the river on a span built by Romans and following the path through firs and beech, we soon reach a bend where the Irati turns back south.

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

Peaks reaching more than a mile high form the backdrop to Bear Valley, a kaleidoscope of green pastures mixed with ponderosa pines, firs, cedars and oak trees.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2024

Green- boughed firs stretched away in endless, disordered rows, each direction a mirror of the others.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs




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