fir
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Small amounts of fir and beech were also present.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Douglas fir was the focus of their study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Ford’s fir and birch-burners are radiant examples of human-made art triumphing over digital manufacture.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
The gentle slopes of Ukraine's Carpathian mountains, smothered in brilliant green spruce and fir trees, stretch into the distance.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
They had stayed sheltered under a huge fir tree, at the base of a bluff eleven miles north of the volcano.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Roughly 30 giant Taiwania firs were growing together in a dense and ancient 'pure forest'.
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
This spring, as in the past several years, the needles on Douglas firs are yellowing, turning red and then dropping to the ground in forests across southwestern Oregon.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Green- boughed firs stretched away in endless, disordered rows, each direction a mirror of the others.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
