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black pine

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noun

  1. See matai

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There were forests of black pine and overlooks of amaranth and silver grass.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016

The garden said it intended to propagate from the black pine.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2014

A 215-year-old black pine known as "Tolkien's tree" in Oxford University's Botanic Garden is to be felled after two of its branches came down.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2014

It’s thick with plants, a seaside forest filled with bayberry, beach plum, autumn olive, wild rose, and Japanese black pine 15 feet tall.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2014

To make an imitation of this great building in uncouth, somber, almost black pine logs of dubious proportions is hardly an artistically inspired accomplishment.

From The Art of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen