White-pine definition

A timber tree (Pinus strobus) of eastern North America, having needles in clusters of five and durable, easily worked wood.
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Any of several other pines having needles in clusters of five, especially P. monticola of western North America.
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The wood of certain of these trees, especially P. strobus.
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Any of various closely related pines having needles in groups of five.
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A pine (Pinus strobus) of E North America, with bluish-green or grayish-green needles in bundles of five, hanging brown cones, and soft, light wood.
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The wood of this tree.
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Pinus strobus.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
white-pine
Plural:
white pines

White-pine Sentence Examples

  • In the area of the Newer Appalachian Mountains, the eastern Panhandle region has a forest similar to that of the plateau district; but between these two areas of hardwood there is a long belt where spruce and white pine cover the mountain ridges.

  • Vermont (vert mont), the Green Mountain State, was so named from the evergreen forests of its mountains, whose principal trees are spruce and fir on the upper slopes and white pine and hemlock on the lower.

  • The state's lumber trade was important until 1890, when the white pine was nearly exhausted, although there were still spruce and hemlock.

  • The white pine had been much cut off by 1890 and it is no longer commercially important.

  • From the valley of the Humboldt river southward the plateau gradually rises until the divide between this stream and the Colorado river, in the vicinity of the White Pine Mountains, is reached.

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