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TRUE FIR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

fir; fir tree; true fir

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "true fir"):

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

Meronyms (substance of "true fir"):

fir (nonresinous wood of a fir tree)

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

Abies; genus Abies (true firs)

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