Fir Definition

fûr
firs
noun
firs
Any of a genus (Abies) of cone-bearing evergreen trees of the pine family, having flattened needles and upright cones whose scales fall off at maturity.
Webster's New World
Any of various other coniferous trees, as the Douglas fir.
Webster's New World
The wood of any of these trees.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
abbreviation
Far-infrared radiation.
American Heritage
Firkin.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fir

Noun

Singular:
fir
Plural:
firs

Origin of Fir

  • From Middle English firre, from either Old Norse fýri (as in fýriskógr 'fir-wood') or Old English fyrh, furh (as in furhwudu 'pinewood'), from Proto-Germanic *furhijǭ (compare Low German Fuhr, German Föhre 'pine', Danish fyr), from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥kʷeh₂ (compare Italian (Trentino) porca 'fir'), from *pérkʷus 'oak' (compare Latin quercus 'oak', Albanian shpardh, shparr 'Italian oak', Punjabi ਪਰਗਾਇ (pargāī, “holm oak, Quercus baloot”)). Related to frith.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English firre probably of Scandinavian origin perkwu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fir Sentence Examples

  • The forests are chiefly composed of oak, fir, pine, ash and alder.

  • The hills are generally richly wooded, chiefly with fir, beech and oak.

  • The silver fir does not extend over Russia, and the oak does not cross the Urals.

  • The lower parts of the Riesengebirge are clad with forests of oak, beech, pine and fir; above 1600 ft.

  • The Siberian larch predominates also in the alpine tracts fringing the plateau on the north, intermingled with the fir, stone-pine, aspen and birch.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIR

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3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With F3 Letter Words Ending With R