HyperDic: ancient_pine

English > 1 sense of the expression ancient pine:
NOUNplantancient pine, Pinus longaevasmall slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine
English > ancient pine: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningsmall 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.
SynonymPinus longaeva
Broaderpine, pine tree, true pineA coniferous tree
Catalanpinus longaeva

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