limber pine

American  

noun

1. a pine, Pinus flexilis, of western North America, having light, soft wood used locally for railroad ties, poles, fuel, etc.

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Example Sentences

From lowest elevation to highest, this included ponderosa pine, piñon pine, Englemann spruce, Douglas fir and limber pine.

From Science Daily

At a Montana ranch, he enhances the flora of another harsh environment, a place where the slopes are dotted with clumps of balsamroot and the limber pines, gnarled and wind-swept, cling to the rock outcrops.

From Washington Post

Smithers took part of a day off to show me a site where he had done a study comparing bristlecone populations with those of the limber pine, another hardy species that grows at high altitudes.

From The New Yorker

The climatic changes have triggered a struggle for dominance, in very slow motion, between the ancient bristlecones and the younger limber pines that have been able to charge up-slope as conditions become warmer and wetter.

From Los Angeles Times

Driven by climate change, a cousin of the tree, the limber pine, is leapfrogging up mountainsides, taking root in warmer, more favorable temperatures and leaving little room for the late-coming bristlecone, a study finds.

From Washington Post