white pine

/waɪt paɪn/

/hwaɪt paɪn/

Other forms: white pines

Definitions of white pine

1. noun

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

   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

   type of:

   pine, pine tree, true pine

   a coniferous tree
2. noun

   soft white wood of white pine trees
   type of:

   pine

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