jack pine


noun
  1. a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.

Origin of jack pine

1
First recorded in 1880–85

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How to use jack pine in a sentence

  • Let me tell you one thing that I discovered the white oaks were doing in the sand of the Jack-pine plains of Michigan.

    Seed Dispersal | William J. Beal
  • There Bill cut off an eight-inch jack pine, leaving the stump approximately four feet high.

    North of Fifty-Three | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • But win to the uppermost height they did, where an early snowfall lay two inches deep in a thin forest of jack pine.

    North of Fifty-Three | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • They sat on the bowlder for a few minutes, then scrambled downhill to the jack-pine flat, and built their evening fire.

    North of Fifty-Three | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • In the dim light of dawn Bill picked his way up through the jack-pine flat.

    North of Fifty-Three | Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for jack pine

jack pine

noun
  1. a coniferous tree, Pinus banksiana, of North America, having paired needle-like leaves and small cones that remain on the branches for many years: family Pinaceae

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