true pine

/tru paɪn/

Other forms: true pines

Definitions of true pine

1. noun

   a coniferous tree
   synonyms: pine, pine tree

   types:

   pinon, pinyon

   any of several low-growing pines of western North America

   Pinus glabra, spruce pine

   large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood

   Pinus nigra, black pine

   large two-needled timber pine of southeastern Europe

   Pinus rigida, northern pitch pine, pitch pine

   large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine

   Pinus serotina, pond pine

   large three-needled pine of sandy swamps of southeastern United States; needles longer than those of the northern pitch pine

   European nut pine, Pinus pinea, stone pine, umbrella pine

   medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown; widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds

   Pinus cembra, Swiss pine, Swiss stone pine, arolla pine, cembra nut tree

   large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate

   Pinus mugo, Swiss mountain pine, dwarf mountain pine, mountain pine, mugho pine, mugo pine

   low shrubby pine of central Europe with short bright green needles in bunches of two

   Pinus longaeva, ancient pine

   small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops

   white pine

   any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine

   yellow pine

   any of various pines having yellow wood

   Jeffrey pine, Jeffrey's pine, Pinus jeffreyi, black pine

   tall symmetrical pine of western North America having long blue-green needles in bunches of 3 and elongated cones on spreading somewhat pendulous branches; sometimes classified as a variety of ponderosa pine

   Pinus contorta, lodgepole, lodgepole pine, shore pine, spruce pine

   shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares

   Pinus contorta murrayana, Sierra lodgepole pine

   tall subspecies of lodgepole pine

   Pinus taeda, frankincense pine, loblolly pine

   tall spreading three-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head

   Pinus banksiana, jack pine

   slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark

   swamp pine

   any of several pines that prefer or endure moist situations such as loblolly pine or longleaf pine

   Canadian red pine, Pinus resinosa, red pine

   pine of eastern North America having long needles in bunches of two and reddish bark

   Pinus sylvestris, Scotch fir, Scotch pine, Scots pine

   medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark

   Jersey pine, Pinus virginiana, Virginia pine, scrub pine

   common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2

   Monterey pine, Pinus radiata

   tall California pine with long needles in bunches of 3, a dense crown, and dark brown deeply fissured bark

   Pinus aristata, Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine, bristlecone pine

   small slow-growing upland pine of western United States (Rocky Mountains) having dense branches with fissured rust-brown bark and short needles in bunches of 5 and thorn-tipped cone scales; among the oldest living things some over 4500 years old

   Pinus pungens, hickory pine, prickly pine, table-mountain pine

   a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales

   Pinus attenuata, knobcone pine

   medium-sized three-needled pine of the Pacific coast of the United States having a prominent knob on each scale of the cone

   Japanese red pine, Japanese table pine, Pinus densiflora

   pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature; grown as an ornamental

   Japanese black pine, Pinus thunbergii, black pine

   large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog

   Pinus torreyana, Torrey pine, Torrey's pine, grey-leaf pine, sabine pine, soledad pine

   medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones

   nut pine

   any of several pinons bearing edible nutlike seeds

   Pinus muricata, bishop pine, bishop's pine

   two-needled or three-needled pinon mostly of northwestern California coast

   California single-leaf pinyon, Pinus californiarum

   very small tree similar to Rocky mountain pinon but having a single needle per fascicle; similar to Parry's pinyon in range

   Parry's pinyon, Pinus parryana, Pinus quadrifolia

   five-needled pinon of southern California and northern Baja California having (sometimes three-needled or four-needled showing hybridization from Pinus californiarum)

   American white pine, Pinus strobus, eastern white pine, weymouth pine

   tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree

   Pinus monticola, mountain pine, silver pine, western white pine

   tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature

   Pinus strobiformis, southwestern white pine

   medium-size pine of northwestern Mexico; bark is dark brown and furrowed when mature

   Pinus flexilis, limber pine

   western North American pine with long needles and very flexible limbs and dark-grey furrowed bark

   Pinus albicaulis, whitebark pine, whitebarked pine

   small pine of western North America; having smooth grey-white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine

   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:

   conifer, coniferous tree

   any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones