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# fir

«fir» in Mova's judaism 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#m1)

2) The wood of this tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#m2)

### 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

- Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house. (Writings PSA.104.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#x1)
- We decorated a fir tree for Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#x2)
- Fir trees stay green all winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#x3)
- The forest smelled of fir and pine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#x4)
- Squirrels nibbled seeds from the fir cones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#x5)
- The cabin was built from fir wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#x6)
- A fir's needles are soft and flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#x7)
- They had the scent of fir-trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1840/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fir» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fir/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.