fir cone

On this day, though, he finds a fir cone and picks it up.

He could smell the place - damp leaves - fir cones.

Because it might just as easily be a fir cone or a pear, but it's always an acorn.

There were sudden sharp sounds, a fir cone dropping to the ground, a seagull.

The sticks were crackling and some fir cones were burning with a bright clear flame.

'They're just becoming useful when there's the silver to clean, and they gather fir cones for the fire.

The forest floor was only a couple of feet from his face, a pungent brown carpet of decaying leaves and fir cones.

"But this is the significant thing," he added, pointing to a cluster of fir cones tied clumsily onto the can with red ribbon.

Prior to this they were known as "fossil fir cones" and "bezoar stones."

Tannenzäpfle literally means "little fir cones" and is a reference to the shape of the bottle.

I don't recall this, though I do remember leading the boys in charges to hurl giant fir cones at the girls.

Pooh thinks up a rhyme to go with the fir cone, but he accidentally trips on a tree root and drops it in the river.

Her long, fine hair was dyed pale blonde, and her eyes, "brown as fir cones in autumn, scattered laughter".

Douglas fir cones are easy to distinguish as they appear hairy - stiff bracts poke out from the cone scales.

The ground was matted with wet leaves and fallen twigs, and knobbly with fir cones.

The days of relying on fir cones, star-gazing, folk sayings or supersized rodents are long gone.

Red fir cones also mostly have shorter bracts, except in Abies magnifica var.

A forage in the garden produces fir cones, pine fronds and be-berried holly sprigs that make beautiful gift decorations.

Luxury Galaxy Truffle fir cones will be sold singly (25p) or in three-packs (75p).

I never go round by myself without seeing one because I hear feet scrabbling on the bark or I see bits of fir cone floating down.

Nearer to home, 'New Forest' was a continental design on a bed of moss, with a selection of spring flowers, fir cones and fungi.

In this case the fir cone would be dipped in the bucket of water before being shaken in order to ritually purify a person or object.

The fir cones of modern species will be familiar to the reader, often littering forests in their thousands, and containing seeds, which may be equipped with wings.

Notice of Exhibition of Vegetable Spirals (chiefly Fir Cones and Cacti).