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yellow pine

DEFINITIONS OF: yellow pine

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n any of various pines having yellow wood

Types:
Pinus ponderosa, bull pine, ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine
common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature
Georgia pine, Pinus palustris, longleaf pine, pitch pine, southern yellow pine
large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree
Pinus echinata, short-leaf pine, shortleaf pine, shortleaf yellow pine
large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature
Type of:
pine, pine tree, true pine
a coniferous tree

n hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine

Type of:
pine
straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
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