shortleaf pine

noun

Any member of the species Pinus echinata of tall-growing conifers of the southeastern US, from eastern Texas and Oklahoma to southern New Jersey, excluding the Florida peninsula.

Similar
yellow pineshortstraw pineArkansas pinerosemary pinelong-tag pineshort-leaf pineshortleaf yellow pinePinus echinata

Meanings

nounshortleaf pine (plural shortleaf pines)

plural shortleaf pines

  1. Any member of the species Pinus echinata of tall-growing conifers of the southeastern US, from eastern Texas and Oklahoma to southern New Jersey, excluding the Florida peninsula.

    Synonyms: yellow pine, shortstraw pine, Arkansas pine, rosemary pine, long-tag pine

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAny member of the species Pinus echinata of tall-growing conifers of the southeastern US, from eastern Texas and Oklahoma to southern New Jersey, excluding the Florida peninsula.

Similar
yellow pineshortstraw pineArkansas pinerosemary pinelong-tag pine

More synonyms by meaning

nounlarge pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature

Similar
short-leaf pineshortleaf yellow pinePinus echinata

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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