WordNet
n. common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature [syn: ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine, Pinus ponderosa]
Wikipedia
Bull pine is a common name for several species of North American “ yellow pine” trees — Genus Pinus, Section Trifoliae (“American hard pines”) — especially large, or unusually large and isolated, specimens of the following.
- Shortleaf pine ( Pinus echinata)
- Slash pine ( Pinus elliottii)
- Jeffrey pine ( Pinus jeffreyi)
- Ponderosa pine ( Pinus ponderosa)
- Gray pine ( Pinus sabiniana)
- Loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda)
Usage examples of "bull pine".
Once you're on the far side of Speckled Bird Mountain you grab the Stanhouse Road, turn left onto the Bull Pine Road—.
But the folds of land looked right, the configuration of those two joined pines was familiar, and the spidery bulk of that bull pine called to him.
The truck emerged, from the sycamores, passed through a stand of bull pine onto a grassy flat that merged into beach sand edging a cerulean lake.
Once you're on the far side of Speckled Bird Mountain you grab the Stanhouse Road, turn left onto the Bull Pine Roadthere's a swampy patch there but you can spang right through it if you get up enough speed on the graveland so you come out on Route 106.