Meanings
plural lodgepoles
- countableuncountableA lodgepole pine or its wood.
Although individual lodgepoles got killed almost instantly by fires, those same fires set the stage for more lodgepole stands
1995, Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West, page 271 more example
Here stood an eight-by-ten-foot canvas tent stretched over a lodgepole frame ...Around the stove were a lodgepole table, a lodgepole bed
2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 95
Synonyms & antonyms
nounshrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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