Fir-cone

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 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[.]"

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"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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