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balsam fir

NOUN
  1. medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; leaves smell of balsam when crushed; much used for pulpwood and Christmas trees

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  • The forests include such conifers as red spruce, black spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, red pine, jack pine, eastern white pine, tamarack, eastern white cedar, and eastern hemlock.
  • I spotted it briefly as it hopped among the thick branches of a balsam fir close above me.
  • There are also maple, spruce, pine and balsam fir saplings, and patches of wild raspberries and blueberries.
  • Abies Englemanii, near of kin to what is often called the balsam fir. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • The berm was now covered with a strip of forest, primarily of balsam fir and red maples.
  • A species of fir which one of my men informs me is precisely the same with that called the balsam fir of Canada. 1 it grows here to considerable size, being from 2 1/2 to 4 feet in diameter and rises to the hight of eighty or an hundred feet. it 's stem is simple branching, ascending and proliferous. it's leaves are sessile, acerose, one 1/8 of an inch in length and Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
  • The balsam fir, which had not shown much decline prior to 1986, also began to be diminished.
  • The most attractive tree I have seen is the silver spruce, Abies Englemanii, near of kin to what is often called the balsam fir. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • Now the slender spires of tamarack and balsam fir dominated a scraggly forest, while impenetrable-looking layers of hardy shrubs filled the understorey.
  • Same with that called the balsam fir of Canada. it grows here to considerable Size, being from 21/2 to 4 feet in diameeter and rises to the hight of 100 or 120 feet. it's Stem is Simple branching assending and proliferous -. it's leaves are cessile, acerose, 1/8 of an inch in length and 1/16 of an inch in width, thickly scattered on all Sides of the twigs as far as the groth of four proceeding years, and respects the three undersides only, the upper Side being neglected and the under The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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