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Scotch fir

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Noun1.Scotch fir - medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown barkScotch fir - medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark
Pinus sylvestris, Scotch pine, Scots pine
pine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree
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In Staffordshire, on the estate of a relation where I had ample means of investigation, there was a large and extremely barren heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been enclosed twenty-five years previously and planted with Scotch fir.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
At the sound of his voice she started back and retreated out of his sight amongst some young Scotch firs growing near the very brink of the precipice.
Chance by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Just beyond it is a nice little grove of Scotch firs, and I used to be very fond of strolling down there, for trees are always a neighborly kind of things.
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