Abies (a'bi-ez)

A genus of the Coniferce. A. balsamea. Syn.: A. balsam if era. Pinus balsamea. The American silver fir; a species indigenous to the Northern United States and Canada; which furnishes Canada balsam (Canada turpentine). A. balsam if era. See A. balsamea. A. can a dens is. The hemlock or hemlock spruce; a species indigenous to British America and the Northern United States, and furnishing the so-called Canada pitch. A. communis, A. excels a. Syn.: A. communis, Pinus Abies, Pinus pice a. The Norway spruce; indigenous to Europe and Northern Asia. It furnishes Burgundy pitch. A. pectin at a, A. pice a. The European silver fir, furnishing Stra burg turpentine and abietite, a sugar resembling mannite, from the needles. A. Saba nia na. The California nut-pine, which yields abietene, identical with heptane. [Lat, abies, fir-tree.]