Definition of Silver fir

1. Noun. Any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath.


Definition of Silver fir

1. Noun. A common name for ''Abies alba'', a large evergreen coniferous tree native to Europe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Fir

silver birches
silver bream
silver breams
silver bromide
silver bullet
silver bullets
silver cell
silver certificate
silver chloride
silver compounds
silver cone
silver cord
silver dollar
silver dollars
silver fern
silver fir
silver firs
silver fluoride
silver foil
silver foxes
silver frost
silver frosts
silver general
silver generals
silver goal
silver goals
silver gray
silver grey

Literary usage of Silver fir

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Wherefore some try to define the time for the cutting of each tree ; for instance for fir and silver- fir the time is, they say, when they begin to peel 2 ..."

2. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"But since they strip the bark of2 hardly any trees except silver-fir fir and pine, these trees are cut in the spring ; for then is the time of coming into ..."

3. The American Agriculturist (1843)
"THE silver fir.—(Fio. 36.) This is more usually found in Nova Scotia, the Canadas, and northern states; but it occasionally flourishes on the high mountains ..."

4. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1891)
"The Grecian silver fir starts earlier, and is most remarkable of all for an early coating of the lovely young growth peculiar to the silver firs. ..."

5. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"The Grecian silver fir starts earlier, and is most remarkable of all for an early coating of the lovely young growth peculiar to the silver firs. ..."

6. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Chesnut is invariably used for blacksmiths' charcoal. Magnolia has a disagreeable odour, and laurel burns very badly. According to Hooker, the silver fir ..."

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