Sentence examples for fir cones from inspiring English sources

They're knobbly and, as their name suggests, they don't do very much; more like fir cones than animals.

These bodies had long been known as fossil fir cones and bezoar stones (hardened undigestible contents of the intestines).

"To start with it is rather citrusy, but then the aroma opens up you you can feel its forest-like core – pines and fir cones.

Factor in the mountain foraging, the varnishing of fir cones (would that work with the conkers?), spraying of artichokes etc, and you're probably talking about all day.

If your man smells of blackcurrant and fir cones this Christmas, it is possible he could be wearing a new scent dedicated to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The shop windows, when they are not full of curiously sinister antique dolls, are glistening with caskets of sugar plums and chocolate fir cones.

Fir Cone was described as Oregon's Monticello by later Senator Richard L. Neuberger, as it hosted many meetings with politicians from the national stage.

His estate, called "Fir Cone", featured a putting green, rose garden, tennis court, fishpond, and arboretum, and more than 250 acre of trees.

An example is shown for 27 Red Crossbills timed foraging on Douglas-fir cones (Benkman 1993), where the bill depth minimizing the time to extract a seed is approximately 9.4 millimeters (Fig. 3a).

The heat dries the Douglas-fir cones enough for their scales to spread and release winged seeds.

Baeospora myosura is similar in size and appearance to C. tuberosa, but grows on spruce and Douglas-fir cones.