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spruce-fir 
n. any of a number of firs, as the balsam.
See also: balsam (fir)
- 1760 The spruce-fir is of the resinous kind, but does not produce a sufficient quantity for general use.
- 1829 The spruce-fir is very common, and furnishes materials for spruce-beer, a beverage of high request among the Canadians; and spruce knees, which are the roots of this tree, are found to be a good substitute for crooked oak, in boat and ship-building.
- 1905 . . . as thunder-clouds looked threatening, at once prepared an elaborate nest, hollowed amongst the roots of a large spruce fir, and filled in with small trees and branches.
- 1760 The spruce-fir is of the resinous kind, but does not produce a sufficient quantity for general use.