umbrella pine

noun

1. a Japanese evergreen tree, Sciadopitys verticillata, having linear leaves growing in umbrellalike whorls, cultivated as an ornamental.
2. stone pine ( def 1 ).

umbrella pine

noun

1. See stone pine
   another name for stone pine

Word History and Origins

Origin of umbrella pine¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Under a vast umbrella pine we dismounted, rested, and saw Capri.

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The Camerons have taken that big pink house over there, with the umbrella pine in the garden.

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No American evergreen known to me resembles the umbrella pine sufficiently to be a fair object of comparison with it.

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The cypress and the umbrella pine are not merely conventional types of the Italian landscape.

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The Umbrella Pine (Sciadopitys) is a very striking conifer, and does well everywhere.

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