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lodgepole pine

lodgepole pine \lodgepole pine\ n. A tall, narrow 2-needled pine ( Pinus contorta) of the coastal Northwestern U. S., having a red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares and bearing egg-shaped cones.

Syn: shore pine, lodgepole pine, spruce pine, Pinus contorta.

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lodgepole pine

n. A pine tree native to northwest America, ''Pinus contorta''.

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lodgepole pine

n. shrubby 2-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares [syn: shore pine, lodgepole, spruce pine, Pinus contorta]

Usage examples of "lodgepole pine".

Sax saw some lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, joining the more numerous white spruce.

I took an army entrenching tool out of the back of my truck, jumped across the stream on the north side of the road, and walked up the incline into the lodgepole pine.

I puffed up the last hunk of trail, which was all grown together with weeds and snowmelts, and there was that big sentinel lodgepole pine Dad always told me about.

Fording the stream where Caradec had encountered the young squaw, she rode higher on the mountain, angling across the slope under a magnificent stand of lodgepole pine.

Here and there among the forest of mounting color were the darker arrowheads of spruce and lodgepole pine.

They climbed two thousand feet in three miles with the trees dwindling and dwarfing until they came to a waist-high hedge of lodgepole pine, willow, and tough shrubs at timber line, a hedge shaved level across the top by the edge of storm winds, running in and out along the mountainsides at one height like the verge of green water.

He was still surprised at how run-down the layout was, despite how fresh the bark on the unstrapped bark of the mostly lodgepole pine construction looked.

Needles in a great old lodgepole pine stirred and whispered overhead.

There were also trees that looked like white and black oaks, firs, Western yew, and lodgepole pine.

Hours passed as he inspected specimens one by one, admiring in particular the spiraling trunk and branches, the flaking bark and sprays of needles, of one little lodgepole pine-like a piece of flamboyant sculpture, really.