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fir

[fur] / fɜr /
NOUN
evergreen
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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

The company’s forests in Oregon and Washington state are particularly valuable because they produce desirable wood from Douglas fir trees.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 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

A crow swooped down over it, but Ms. Griegson waved it away, and it went back up in the fir with the other crows.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones