yellow pine

/ˌjɛloʊ paɪn/

Other forms: yellow pines

Definitions of yellow pine

1. noun

   any of various pines having yellow wood
   types:

   Pinus ponderosa, bull pine, ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine

   common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature

   Georgia pine, Pinus palustris, longleaf pine, pitch pine, southern yellow 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

   Pinus echinata, short-leaf pine, shortleaf pine, shortleaf yellow pine

   large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature

   type of:

   pine, pine tree, true pine

   a coniferous tree
2. noun

   hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine
   type of:

   pine

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