pseudotsuga menziesii

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgreen douglas firdouglas sprucedouglas pinedouglas hemlockOregon firOregon pine

   Broaderdouglas fir

Questions about pseudotsuga menziesii

What does pseudotsuga menziesii mean?

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

What is another word for pseudotsuga menziesii?

Close synonyms include green douglas fir, douglas spruce, douglas pine, douglas hemlock, Oregon fir. 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 pseudotsuga menziesii a common word?

pseudotsuga menziesii 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.