Pine vs. Fir

Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

Example: ‘The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.’;

(countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.

(uncountable) The wood of this tree.

A pineapple.

(archaic) A painful longing.

To feel irritated; to reflect on a problem; to think something over.

To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.

(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

Example: ‘Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.’;

(transitive) To grieve or mourn for.

(transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

Woe; torment; pain.

Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.

The wood of the pine tree.

A pineapple.

To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

Example: ‘That people that pyned him to death.’; ‘One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.’;

To grieve or mourn for.

To suffer; to be afflicted.

To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; - often used with away.

To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; - usually followed by for.

Example: ‘For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.’;

a coniferous tree

straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

have a desire for something or someone who is not present;

Example: ‘She ached for a cigarette’; ‘I am pining for my lover’;

an evergreen coniferous tree which has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves. Many kinds are grown for the soft timber, which is widely used for furniture and pulp, or for tar and turpentine.

used in names of coniferous trees of families other than that of the pine, e.g. Chile pine.

used in names of unrelated plants that resemble the pines in some way, e.g. ground pine, screw pine.

having the scent of pine needles

Example: ‘pine potpourri’;

a pineapple.

suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart

Example: ‘she thinks I am pining away from love’;

miss or long for

Example: ‘she's still pining for him’;

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus () of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.

A conifer of the genus Abies.

Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).

(uncountable) Wood of such trees.

A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.

nonresinous wood of a fir tree

any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas

an evergreen coniferous tree with upright cones and flat needle-shaped leaves, typically arranged in two rows. Firs are an important source of timber and resins.

Firs (Abies) are a genus of 48–56 species of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae. They are found through much of North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, occurring in mountains over most of the range.