fir

«fir» in Mova's school dictionary: A tall evergreen tree with flat needles and upright… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fir, firs; also fir tree)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tall evergreen tree with flat needles and upright cones; many are used as Christmas trees. tree →

2) The wood of this tree. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons, firs are conifers: they keep their needles in winter and have cones. In everyday life, fir trees are popular Christmas trees and their wood is used for building. Phrases: «fir tree», «fir cone», «Douglas fir».

examples

• We decorated a fir tree for Christmas. tree →
• Fir trees stay green all winter. tree →
• The forest smelled of fir and pine. tree →
• Squirrels nibbled seeds from the fir cones. tree →
• The cabin was built from fir wood. tree →
• A fir's needles are soft and flat. tree →
• They had the scent of fir-trees. tree →

note

Countable. Homophone trap: «fir» (tree) sounds the same as «fur» (animal hair). Many trees called «pine» or «spruce» look like firs; fir cones stand upright on branches and fall apart there.

In the corpora

• Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fir» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.