Santa Lucian.
/ˈsantə lʊˈtʃiːə/ Used attributively in Santa Lucia fir to designate the bristlecone fir, Abies bracteata, which is native to the region.
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1905 Occas. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci. IX. 7 Santa Lucia Fir is found in only a few cañons of the Santa Lucia Mountains in Monterey County.
1948 Sierra Club Bull. (San Francisco) Mar. 137 Among these were the Santa Lucia fir..and hosts of others.
1965 Listener 20 May 742/3 You mentioned a Santa Lucia fir just now, and you were saying that in its original habitat it is sadly depleted.
1977 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 Aug. 1/1 The Marble Cone fire has destroyed two-thirds of the Ventana Wilderness Area, home of the Santa Lucia fir which grows nowhere else.
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