WHITE PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white pine mean? 

• WHITE PINE (noun)
  The noun WHITE PINE has 2 senses:

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

2. soft white wood of white pine trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE PINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)

Meronyms (substance of "white pine"):

white pine (soft white wood of white pine trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white pine"):

American white pine; eastern white pine; Pinus strobus; weymouth pine (tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree)

mountain pine; Pinus monticola; silver pine; western white pine (tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature)

Pinus strobiformis; southwestern white pine (medium-size pine of northwestern Mexico; bark is dark brown and furrowed when mature)

limber pine; Pinus flexilis (western North American pine with long needles and very flexible limbs and dark-grey furrowed bark)

Pinus albicaulis; whitebark pine; whitebarked pine (small pine of western North America; having smooth grey-white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Soft white wood of white pine trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Holonyms ("white pine" is a substance 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)