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Meanings of Scotch fir in English
Portuguese
pinus sylvestris Medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark.
Synonyms
Examples for "Scotch pine"
Examples for "Scotch pine"
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White pine, Norway spruce and Scotch pine were the species used.
2
Tall Scotch pine trees surrounded it and creepers covered much of the walls.
3
Four beds were given to two-year-old plants-Norwayspruce, white pine, European larch and Scotch pine.
4
For Scotch pine one grower advocates eight feet.
5
It had smothered the hardy Scotch pine in days past, and now the spruce was in peril.
1
His cargo included Scots pine, Norway spruce, oak and ash tree seeds.
2
However, the Scots pine is a rarer species of the tree.
3
I never asked you to cut back the overgrown Scots pine now framed against a clear blue sky.
4
Occasionally the trunks and roots of trees, such as Scots pine, oak, birch and yew, are also present.
5
We have Scots pine cones and estuarine mud, carbon dated to 4,500 BC.
1
It seems then that Sempervivum tectorum, etc., will not bear the neighborhood of the birch, though growing well near the Pinus sylvestris.
2
It composes the principal part of the pine-forests of the south-east of France, where Gouan and Gerard have confounded it with the Pinus sylvestris.
3
( Pinus sylvestris, Strobus, Larix, etc.).
4
[Footnote: A hundred and fifty paces from my house is a hill of drift-sand, on which stood a few scattered pines ( Pinus sylvestris).
Usage of Scotch fir in English
1
The boughs of a Scotch fir nearly reached to one window.
2
And how did the Scotch fir die out?
3
Stumps of Scotch fir and oak found in peat are sometimes far larger than any now growing.
4
It led me to a rough western shore, and in front of me stood a great Scotch fir.
5
Their chairs were placed under a tall Scotch fir, which spread its umbrella top between them and the sun.
6
The Scotch fir often grows to the height of a hundred feet, and the bark is of a reddish tinge.
7
In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were human inhabitants in those old pine forests.
8
The spruce trees and Scotch fir were our stronghold, and it was in spruce thickets we made our hiding-places by day.
9
There were exquisitely detailed studies of nature: a tiny whinchat perched on a rock, a solitary Scotch fir twisted by the wind.
10
It has been stated, that a stone implement was found under a buried Scotch fir at a great depth in the peat.
11
The timber is valuable for building; and when sawed into planks, it is called white deal, while that of the Scotch fir is red deal.
12
T rees, especially Scotch fir and larch, grow well, and Braemar is rich in natural timber, said to surpass any in the north of Europe.
13
There were forests of Scotch fir, and of spruce too, which is not wild in England now, though you may see plenty in every plantation.
14
Nothing but pines and pines - Scotch firs all about and everywhere!
15
To their left a few dwarf Scotch firs threw shadows back toward the town.
16
Four Scotch firs beside it, slender and strange.