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AMERICAN WHITE PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American white pine mean? 

AMERICAN WHITE PINE (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN WHITE PINE has 1 sense:

1. tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber treeplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN WHITE PINE used as a noun is very rare.


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AMERICAN WHITE PINE (noun)


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Meaning:

Tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American white pine; eastern white pine; Pinus strobus; weymouth pine

Hypernyms ("American white pine" is a kind of...):

white pine (any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine)


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