PINE TREE STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pine Tree State mean? 

• PINE TREE STATE (noun)
  The noun PINE TREE STATE has 1 sense:

1. a state in New England

  Familiarity information: PINE TREE STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PINE TREE STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in New England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Pine Tree State"):

Acadia National Park (a national park in Maine showing marine erosion and glaciation; includes seashore and also the highest point on the Atlantic coast)

Augusta; capital of Maine (the capital of the state of Maine)

Bangor (a town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River)

Brunswick (a university town in southwestern Maine)

Lewiston (a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland)

Orono (a university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor)

Portland (largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state)

Penobscot; Penobscot River (a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay)

Saint John; Saint John River; St. John; St. John River (a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy)

Holonyms ("Pine Tree State" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)