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pitch pine

n.
An eastern North American pine tree (Pinus rigida) having needles grouped in fascicles of three, formerly used as a source of pitch or turpentine.
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pitch pine

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pitchpine

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1. (Plants) any of various coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, esp P. rigida, of North America, having red-brown bark and long lustrous light brown cones: valued as a source of turpentine and pitch
2. (Forestry) the wood of any of these trees
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pitch′ pine`


n.
any of several pines from which pitch or turpentine is obtained.
[1670–80, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pitch pine - large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbspitch 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
Georgia pine, longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, southern yellow pine
yellow pine - any of various pines having yellow wood
2.pitch pine - large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canadapitch pine - large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine
northern pitch pine, Pinus rigida
pine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree
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pitch pine

n → pitch pine m
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My house was on the side of a hill, immediately on the edge of the larger wood, in the midst of a young forest of pitch pines and hickories, and half a dozen rods from the pond, to which a narrow footpath led down the hill.
A young forest growing up under your meadows, and wild sumachs and blackberry vines breaking through into your cellar; sturdy pitch pines rubbing and creaking against the shingles for want of room, their roots reaching quite under the house.
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It, along with Pinus rigida (pitch pine), Pinus echinata (shortleaf pine), and Pinus virginiana (Virginia pine), forms small conifer-dominated communities throughout the hardwood forests of the Appalachian Mountains.
Characteristics, histories, and future succession of northern pinus pungens stands

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