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scrub pine
noun
- any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scrub pine1
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Example Sentences
Now, Chancellorsville is in a quiet tract of scrub pine woods, twelve miles west of Fredericksburg.
We wandered into rougher country, where the rocks begin to show through the surface, and scrub pine abounds.
Olive hung out over the water, where the creek deepened into a small pool, under the branches of a scrub pine tree.
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.
Milt was, with a hatchet from his camping-kit, cutting down a large scrub pine.
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