firs in English

noun
1
an evergreen coniferous tree with upright cones and flat needle-shaped leaves, typically arranged in two rows. Firs are an important source of timber and resins.
If you were stranded in the woods during a storm, you would be a bit safer standing under a tree with large flat leaves like oak, than you would under a fir or pine tree.

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1. The firs perspire a fine balsam of turpentine.

2. 1 The firs perspire a fine balsam of turpentine.

3. 70s Dennis J Boblet Everett, WA (Seattle Hill-silver Firs) View Full Report

4. At night, they lay on beds made from the branches of balsam firs.

5. Colophony comes from the sap of coniferous trees such as pines, junipers, firs, and cedars

6. Springs King Boletes (Boletus rex-veris) grow under Ponderosa pines and white firs at …

7. Colophony comes from the sap of coniferous trees such as pines, junipers, firs, and cedars

8. But I flushed a barred owl from a red maple tree among the balsam firs.

9. Living Conifers are all in the order Pinales.Typical examples include cedars, cypresses, firs, junipers, kauris, larches

10. The firs 6 months he Attended one and the last 6 months he Attended another one

11. Here is also a carpet of two-to three-inch-tall balsam firs, and similarly-sized red maples.

12. The basement behind formed the firs fire station with its antediluvian engine, and opposite was the police station.

13. In about 1900, a tiny insect called balsam woolly Adelgid (Adelges piceae), a European native, appeared in North America on balsam firs (Abies balsamea) in New England and Canada.In 1928 it was found for the first time in a western state, on ornamental firs near San Francisco.

14. 7 We walked in single file along the ridge of Adams Hill, then down into the firs where it was pitch-dark.

15. This was contained in a statement by the EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, titled, ‘EFCC Arraigns three FIRS directors, six other officers for …

16. Rosin (also known as Colophony) is the term collectively used for the solidified, distilled form of resins from pines, cedars, spruce, firs and junipers

17. In another apparent effort to subvert the Supreme Court’s order to ensure accountability, names of security personnel have been left off of most FIRs filed by the CBI.

18. The Agrawal inquiry into the " DD Sports Consortium " has led to two firs being lodged against DD officials , World Tel ( both the Indian and US branches ) UTV , Stracon and certain officials of the ICC .

19. Conifers are a type of woody plant that belong to the botanical division Pinophyta and class Pinopsida. Apart from firs, spruces, and pines, other trees belonging to the families of Conifers include cedar, cypress, yew, and juniper trees.

20. Above the firs come the tamarack, constituting the bulk of the lower Alpine forest; the hardy long-lived mountain pine; the red cedar or juniper, growing even on the Baldest rocks; the beautiful hemlock spruce; the still higher white pine, nut pine, needle pine; and finally, at io,000 to 12,000 ft., the dwarf pine, which grows in a tangle on the earth over which one walks, and may not show for