lodgepole

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noun

A lodgepole pine or its wood.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

nounlodgepole (countable and uncountable, plural lodgepoles)

plural lodgepoles

  1. 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 27
    1 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

Broader
pinepine treetrue pine

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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