PINE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pine tree mean? 

• PINE TREE (noun)
  The noun PINE TREE has 1 sense:

1. a coniferous tree

  Familiarity information: PINE TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PINE TREE (noun)

Meaning:

A coniferous tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pine; pine tree; true pine

Hypernyms ("pine tree" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (parts of "pine tree"):

pinecone (the seed-producing cone of a pine tree)

Meronyms (substance of "pine tree"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pine tree"):

grey-leaf pine; Pinus torreyana; sabine pine; soledad pine; Torrey pine; Torrey's pine (medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones)

frankincense pine; loblolly pine; Pinus taeda (tall spreading three-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head)

jack pine; Pinus banksiana (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; scrub pine; Virginia 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)

bristlecone pine; Pinus aristata; Rocky Mountain 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)

hickory pine; Pinus pungens; 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)

knobcone pine; Pinus attenuata (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)

black pine; Japanese black pine; Pinus thunbergii (large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog)

Pinus contorta murrayana; Sierra lodgepole pine (tall subspecies of lodgepole pine)

lodgepole; lodgepole pine; Pinus contorta; shore pine; spruce pine (shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares)

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)

black pine; Pinus nigra (large two-needled timber pine of southeastern Europe)

northern pitch pine; Pinus rigida; 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)

arolla pine; cembra nut tree; Pinus cembra; Swiss pine; Swiss stone pine (large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate)

dwarf mountain pine; mountain pine; mugho pine; mugo pine; Pinus mugo; Swiss mountain pine (low shrubby pine of central Europe with short bright green needles in bunches of two)

ancient pine; Pinus longaeva (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)

black pine; Jeffrey pine; Jeffrey's pine; Pinus jeffreyi (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)

Holonyms ("pine tree" is a member of...):

genus Pinus; Pinus (type genus of the Pinaceae: large genus of true pines)