red fir

English

A snowy red fir. Truckee, California.

Etymology

From the bark colour of the older trees.

Noun

red fir (plural red firs)

1. Abies magnifica, a western North American fir tree.
   • 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     […] in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.