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Silver fir   /sˈɪlvər fər/   Listen
Silver fir

noun
1.
Any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath.



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European silver fir
Pacific silver fir
red silver fir


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"Silver fir" Quotes from Famous Books



... stood on the gravel, watching the night gathering in the open country. In the light of the moon, which had just risen above the woods, the white road grew whiter, the town was faintly seen in the tide of blue vapour, which here and there allowed a field to appear. In the foreground a great silver fir, spiky and solitary, rose up in the blue night. Beyond it was seen a corner of the ornamental bridge. The island and its shadow were one black mass rising from the park up to the level of the moon, which, a little to the right, between the town and the ...
— Vain Fortune • George Moore
... confounded with the red silver fir (Abies Magnifica) so eloquently described as the chief delight of the Yosemite region by Smeaton Chase. It grows from seventy to two hundred and fifty or possibly three hundred and fifty feet high, and is the most important ...
— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James


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