noun
douglas fir; closely related to genera Larix and Cathaya
• Syn: ↑genus Pseudotsuga
• Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pinaceae, ↑family Pinaceae, ↑pine family
• Member Meronyms: ↑douglas fir
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\\|sü(ˌ)dō(t)|sügə\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a genus of American and Asiatic evergreen trees (family Pinaceae) having whorled branches, linear flat leaves, monoecious flowers, and pendulous rather large cones that have the bracts longer than the cone scales and the midrib of each produced into a rigid awn and two pointed lobes — see big-cone spruce, douglas fir
Useful english dictionary. 2012.