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Scotch fir   /skɑtʃ fər/   Listen
Scotch fir

noun
1.
Medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark.  Synonyms: Pinus sylvestris, Scotch pine, Scots pine.






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"Scotch fir" Quotes from Famous Books



... as most men, and more fleets than the generality of landsmen; and, to my mind, a large convoy with a few sail of the line to conduct them is as noble and as poetical a prospect as all that inanimate nature can produce. I prefer the "mast of some great admiral," with all its tackle, to the Scotch fir or the Alpine tarnen, and think that more poetry has been made out of it. In what does the infinite superiority of Falconer's "Shipwreck" over all other shipwrecks consist? In his admirable application of the terms of his art; in a poet sailor's description of the sailor's fate. ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various



Words linked to "Scotch fir" :   true pine, Scotch pine, pine tree, pine, Scots pine



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