douglas hemlock

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   lofty douglas fir of northwestern North America having short needles and egg-shaped cones

   Synonymsgreen douglas firdouglas sprucedouglas pineOregon firOregon pinePseudotsuga menziesii

   Broaderdouglas fir

Questions about douglas hemlock

What does douglas hemlock mean?

douglas hemlock means "lofty douglas fir of northwestern North America having short needles and egg-shaped cones".

What is another word for douglas hemlock?

Close synonyms include green douglas fir, douglas spruce, douglas pine, Oregon fir, Oregon pine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is douglas hemlock a common word?

douglas hemlock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.