fir
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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
At last, we found it: a sturdy Douglas fir with boughs that had pleasant symmetry and enough firmness to carry ornaments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 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
In the time it took my eyes to focus, he was twenty feet away, standing at the edge of the small meadow, in the deep shade of a huge fir tree.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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
The two creeks flow through rocky canyons shaded by pines and Douglas firs, where ferns grow along the banks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Deep in the forest, high in the mountains—amidst the evergreens, the firs, the spruces—sits a giant panda.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
