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white pine
noun
- a large, irregularly branched pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern North America, having gray bark and yielding a light-colored, soft, light wood of great commercial importance.
- the wood itself.
- any of various other similar species of pine.
white pine
noun
- a North American coniferous tree, Pinus strobus, having blue-green needle-like leaves, hanging brown cones, and rough bark: family Pinaceae
- the light-coloured wood of this tree, much used commercially
- another name for kahikatea
Word History and Origins
Origin of white pine1
Example Sentences
Eric Hansen, principal of the White Pine Middle School in Ely, Nevada, has also devised novel techniques.
Fifty feet above the ground, from a blasted and hollow white pine, the plaintive sound again shuddered down the wind.
The beautiful white pine forests were converted into boards at the rate of thousands of feet every day.
On the east it is bounded by the Cascade or President's range, everywhere abounding with white pine and cedar.
It was evidently designed for a linen room, and was in process of being fitted with shelves and cupboards of white pine.
White pine from the Alleghany river is annually sent to all the towns on the Ohio, and further down.
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