pitch pine
1. 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 • Syn: longleaf pine, southern yellow pine, Georgia pine, Pinus palustris • Hypernyms: yellow pine 2. large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine • Syn: northern pitch pine, Pinus rigida • Hypernyms: pine, pine tree, true pine
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