Meanings
plural pitch pines
- Any of various other pine trees from which pitch can be obtained, or which have very resinous wood, including members of species:
- especially, Pinus rigida, of the eastern US.
- Pinus caribaea (Caribbean pine)
Synonyms & antonyms
nounlarge 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
nounlarge three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian смолист бор
- смолист бор (smolist bor)any pitch-bearing pine tree
French pitchpin
- pitchpinany pitch-bearing pine tree
German Pech-Kiefer
- Pech-Kieferany pitch-bearing pine tree
Irish giúis roisíneach
- giúis roisíneachany pitch-bearing pine tree
Romanian pitchpine
- pitchpineany pitch-bearing pine tree
Cite this entry
pitch pine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pitch%20pine
“pitch pine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pitch%20pine. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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