sugar pine

American  

noun

1. a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 centimeters) long.

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sugar pine British  

noun

1. a pine tree, Pinus lambertiana, of California and Oregon, having spreading pendulous branches, light brown cones, and sugary resin

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Etymology

Origin of sugar pine

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

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sugar pine

The understory of the ponderosa and sugar pine forest was speckled with manzanita, oak trees and dogwoods with yellow leaves, marking the start of fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024

The remainder were sugar pine, noble fir, red fir, incense cedar, western red cedar, mountain hemlock and western hemlock.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2023

“I would take those out,” he said, pointing at two lovely little cedars nestled in the shade of an enormous sugar pine, their crowns just grazing its lower branches.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2019

But it turns out these now open and sun-filled areas constitute optimal habitat for sugar pine seedlings.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2018

He guided Joe to a lumber rack and pulled out samples of the different woods he used—soft, malleable sugar pine, hard yellow spruce, fragrant cedar, and clear white ash.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown