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fir-cone en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The conical fruit of a fir tree.
   • 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[.] 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:

Forms

Relateds

fir-tree · pine-cone

Translations (6)

nl sparappel (conical fruit of a fir tree) · bg шишарка (conical fruit of a fir tree) · it pigna d'abete (conical fruit of a fir tree) · de Tannenzapfen (conical fruit of a fir tree) · cy mochyn coed (conical fruit of a fir tree) · pl szyszka jodły (conical fruit of a fir tree)