subalpine fir

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   medium-tall timber tree of the Rocky Mountains having a narrowly conic to columnar crown

   SynonymsAlpine firAbies lasiocarpa

   Broadersilver fir

Questions about subalpine fir

What does subalpine fir mean?

subalpine fir means "medium-tall timber tree of the Rocky Mountains having a narrowly conic to columnar crown".

What is another word for subalpine fir?

Close synonyms include Alpine fir, Abies lasiocarpa. 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 subalpine fir a common word?

subalpine fir 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.