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FIR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas

Synonyms:

fir; fir tree; true fir

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fir" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (parts of "fir"):

fir cone (the seed-producing cone of a fir tree)

Meronyms (substance of "fir"):

fir (nonresinous wood of a fir tree)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fir"):

silver fir (any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath)

Abies bracteata; Abies venusta; bristlecone fir; Santa Lucia fir (a pyramidal fir of southwestern California having spiny pointed leaves and cone scales with long spines)

Holonyms ("fir" is a member of...):

Abies; genus Abies (true firs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nonresinous wood of a fir tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fir" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fir"):

douglas fir (strong durable timber of a douglas fir)

Holonyms ("fir" is a substance of...):

fir; fir tree; true fir (any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas)

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 Context examples: 

It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I approached it; it was a road or a track: it led straight up to the light, which now beamed from a sort of knoll, amidst a clump of trees—firs, apparently, from what I could distinguish of the character of their forms and foliage through the gloom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am poor; for I find that, when I have paid my father's debts, all the patrimony remaining to me will be this crumbling grange, the row of scathed firs behind, and the patch of moorish soil, with the yew-trees and holly-bushes in front.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I, too, in the grey, small, antique structure, with its low roof, its latticed casements, its mouldering walls, its avenue of aged firs—all grown aslant under the stress of mountain winds; its garden, dark with yew and holly—and where no flowers but of the hardiest species would bloom—found a charm both potent and permanent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)