yellow pine

noun

1. any of several North American pines yielding a strong, yellowish wood.
2. the wood of any such tree.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow pine¹

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10

Example Sentences

State lockdowns in the spring caused sawmills across the nation to close, leaving California redwoods and Southern yellow pine uncut and reducing lumber on the market.

From Fortune

They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon the sides of the mountains and extending down into the valley are found beautiful groves of yellow pine timber.

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The timber growing in this region is principally yellow pine, spruce, balsam fir, and hemlock; among the bushes I noticed laurel.

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Other species are the alpine fir, Douglas spruce, limber pine, and Western yellow pine.

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Probably they were the ruins of yellow pine trees that before my day had perished in a forest fire.

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