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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An eastern North American pine tree (Pinus rigida) having needles grouped in fascicles of three, formerly used as a source of pitch or turpentine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See pine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of various pine trees from which pitch can be obtain, or which have very resinous wood.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine
  • noun 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

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