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black pine

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noun

  1. See matai

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016

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

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

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

It was then about eleven o'clock, and the broad Inlet sparkled in a blaze of sunshine, with a fresh breeze that came off from the black pine forests crisping it into little splashing ripples.

From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold

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