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WESTERN WHITE PINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does western white pine mean?
• WESTERN WHITE PINE (noun)
The noun WESTERN WHITE PINE has 1 sense:
1. tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature
Familiarity information: WESTERN WHITE PINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
mountain pine; Pinus monticola; silver pine; western white pine
Hypernyms ("western 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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