The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loblolly \Lob"lol`ly\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.
Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia ( Gordonia Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree ( Laplacea h[ae]matoxylon).
Loblolly boy, a surgeon's attendant on shipboard.
--Smollett.
Loblolly pine (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine ( Pinus T[ae]da). Also, Pinus Bahamensis, of the West Indies.
Loblolly tree (Bot.), a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.
Wiktionary
n. (context countable English) A pine tree, ''Pinus taeda'', native to the southeastern US and extensively planted.
WordNet
n. tall spreading 3-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head [syn: frankincense pine, Pinus taeda]
Usage examples of "loblolly pine".
One day as we were wandering in the marshes, far from the paths of men, devouring our own souls, we saw what we thought was a waterspout coming up the bay, and climbed a loblolly pine for safety.
Now the loblolly pine floors with their coating of paste wax felt slick and smooth under the young girl's bare feet as she wandered out, down the hall with its panels of bald cypress and paintings in thick frames of dull gold.
It was in the pines, the management of Carlson Publishing Company being strongly convinced that it was just a matter of time before chemists came up with a means of using fastgrowing loblolly pine for newsprint.
All through the winter and spring, fires smoked the sky as Indians knelt about the trunks of towering oaks and loblolly pine, girdling them and forcing them to die.
He pushed aside an overhanging limb of loblolly pine, then ducked with an exclamation of alarm, as something black shot past his head.
If you drive to the side of town opposite the mill, cruise a few miles up a county highway called Whiskey Run Road, and turn down a narrow dirt road and follow that for four or five hundred yards through cow pastures and stands of loblolly pine and water oak, you will come to a mailbox that marks the entrance to the farm that Susan Fitzsimmons had shared with her crazy artist husband before he was murdered.
You'll miss me for about ten minutes, until old Bubba Gagnier starts taking you out in that leaky catboat of his, and giving you that stuff about his old man's eighteen hundred acres of loblolly pine in Sumter County.
It was a good, tall loblolly pine, whose drooping lower branches didn't look as if they could support a kitten.
Recent studies indicate that depletion of the ozone layer threatens to substantially reduce world loblolly pine production (the major source of pulp in paper) - by up to 30% or even 50%, depending on the fluctuation of the density of the ozone shield.