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Definition of Abies bracteata
1. Noun. A pyramidal fir of southwestern California having spiny pointed leaves and cone scales with long spines.
Generic synonyms: Fir, Fir Tree, True Fir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abies Bracteata
Literary usage of Abies bracteata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order by Adolphus Henry Kent (1900)
"In all the places in Great Britain where Abies bracteata has attained its greatest
dimensions unscathed by the severe winters that occur at intervals in ..."
2. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"... balsam fir* Abies bracteata (D. Don) Poiteau bristlecone fir* Abies
concolor (Gordon & Glendinning) Hildebrand white fir* var. concolor Rocky Mountain ..."
3. Gardening in California: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1908)
"A number of the finest of the species are indigenous to California, Abies amabilis,
Abies grandis, Abies Douglassii, Abies bracteata, and Abies Mertensiana, ..."
4. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"Abies bracteata Nuttall, Sylva, vol. 3, p. 137, t. 118 (1842); Hooker, Bot.
Mag., vol. 79, t. 4740 (1853); Engelmann, Bot. Cal., vol. 2, p. ..."
5. Trees & Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook (1908)
"... such methods and stocks are still spoken of as the correct ones to use ;
though, to take one genus alone, what kind of a specimen Abies bracteata, A, ..."
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