sugar pine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sugar pine
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
Example Sentences
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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
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