scrub pine

noun

1. any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrub pine¹

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95

Example Sentences

Now, Chancellorsville is in a quiet tract of scrub pine woods, twelve miles west of Fredericksburg.

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We wandered into rougher country, where the rocks begin to show through the surface, and scrub pine abounds.

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Olive hung out over the water, where the creek deepened into a small pool, under the branches of a scrub pine tree.

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At a gallop the men fanned out, then forward at a sharp trot across the flats, over the little hills, and into the scrub pine.

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Milt was, with a hatchet from his camping-kit, cutting down a large scrub pine.

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