fir-cone
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- The conical fruit of a fir tree.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:
- Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification[.]
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[edit]Translations
[edit]Conical fruit of a fir tree
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