WordNet
n. strong durable timber of a douglas fir
tall evergreen timber tree of western North America having resinous wood and short needles
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "douglas fir".
The minimum number of annual rings per inch is six for most woods and eight for Port Orford cedar or Douglas fir.
Slowing us down, too, is the appearance ahead of us of a logging truck, stacked with jumbo Douglas fir logs, the ends of which are spray-painted with red numbers and which are almost piercing our windshield.
The bark bore the scars of the rope, and there was sap to make a finger sticky when she touched it, the balsamlike scent of Douglas fir.
A cool breath came from the ridges, shaggy with Douglas fir, vine maple and Oregon oak.
And a few Douglas fir trees, but not many, because the climate was too dry for fir trees.
It became wetter, and the Douglas fir, hemlock, and cedar moved in and took over the land, creating the great closed-canopy forests that you see now.
When a Douglas fir tree was attacked by beetles, it produced an anti-feedant chemical-and so did other Douglas firs in distant parts of the forest.
Above the meadow the road became something less than a jeep trail as it switched back and forth through stands of ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, and occasional aspen groves.
There was a path toward the rocks through a stand of tall Douglas fir trees.
At night, especially in winter, the Douglas fir and lodgepole and ponderosa pines whisper and shake and sigh, even on the leeward side of the hill where my cabin rocks to the gusts some three hundred feet above the valley floor.