WordNet
n. small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semi-desert mountain tops [syn: Pinus longaeva]
Usage examples of "ancient pine".
Looking down at the ice, at the withered things suspended just below the surfacethe ancient pine needles where trees no longer stood, the claw of a predator, yellow and segmented like a maggot, the slivers of flint scattered like fish scales on a beachAsh suddenly knew where she was.
As he came around an ancient pine, he was confronted by the top half of a man's chest hanging upside down from a splintered limb.
She stepped away from the road, over a narrow ditch at the verge, waded through weeds, and took cover against the thick trunk of an ancient pine.
Sitting up, he drew, aimed, shot again and Bovai dodged back behind an ancient pine, the bolt tearing off a spray of bark.
Until the figure loomed ahead, standing on the protruding root of a vast, ancient pine, the figure they had been swept towards, guided towards.
At one time there had been a grove of ancient pine trees near the bridge-the grove that had been destroyed when Herald-trainee Tylendel had lost control of his Gift in the shock following his twin brother's death.
At one time there had been a grove of ancient pine trees near the bridgethe grove that had been destroyed when Herald-trainee Tylendel had lost control of his Gift in the shock following his twin brother's death.
The ancient pine forest was completely destroyed, from the tallest tree to the earth itself, to a depth of the height of a man, as an experimental trench proved.