NOUN | plant | Pinus longaeva, ancient pine | small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine |
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Meaning | 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. | |
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Synonym | ancient pine | |
Broader | pine, pine tree, true pine | A coniferous tree |
Catalan | pinus longaeva |
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