Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A North American tree (Abies balsamea) having a pyramidal shape and flattened needles. It is widely used as a Christmas tree and yields Canada balsam and pulpwood.
Wiktionary
- n. A North American species of fir tree (Abies balsamea).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) the American coniferous tree, Abies balsamea, from which the useful Canada balsam is derived.
WordNet 3.0
- n. medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; leaves smell of balsam when crushed; much used for pulpwood and Christmas trees
Examples
“On a low, dead branch of a balsam fir not ten feet away, a small red squirrel, with his winter ear tufts already grown in, plucked a leathery brown rosette of lichen growing on the bark.”
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An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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Flora mentioned in The Country of the...
spruce, balsam fir, fir, hollyhock, london-pride, sweet-brier, sweet-mary, balm, sage, borage, mint, wormwood and 32 more...
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birch, rowan, alder, willow, ash, hawthorn, oak, holly, hazel, apple, blackthorn, elder and 79 more...
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