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spruce fir
Also spruce-fir.
[Spruce n.]
1. A distinct species of fir (Pinus or Abies) comprising several clearly-marked varieties (cf. Spruce n. 4); one or other of these varieties.
1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Abies, The Common Firr, or Pitch Tree; sometimes called, The Norway or Spruce Firr. 1799[A. Young] Agric. Lincoln. 214 The spruce fir also grows well and large. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 85 This essence is extracted from the small twigs or sprouts of the black and white Spruce Fir. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 109 The whole will be shaped like a cone or pyramid, as in the Spruce Fir.
2. A tree belonging to this species.
1768Pennant Brit. Zool. II. 262 The last spring we discovered the nest of this bird in a spruce fir. 1774Gray Corr. (1843) 173 There you may see larches, Weymouth pines, and spruce firs that have risen by magic. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 317 Those remarkable rows of spruce-firs which line some of the avenues at Meudon. 1896Lloyd's Nat. Hist. 58 The ordinary Crossbill devours the seeds of the larch and spruce-firs. |