Fir vs Fern - What's the difference?
fir | fern |
(chiefly, countable, British) Any conifer of a variety of genera, especially a Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris'' or a (true fir) (''Abies ).
(chiefly, countable, US) A conifer of the genus Abies .
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(uncountable) Wood of such trees.
Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
As nouns the difference between fir and fern
is that fir is any conifer of a variety of genera, especially a Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris or a true fir (Abies) while fern is any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.As a proper noun Fern is
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English
(wikipedia fir)Noun
- I can almost smell the fir scent… resinous, pungent.