The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slash pine
Slash pine \Slash" pine"\ (Bot.) A kind of pine tree ( Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in ``slashes.''
Wiktionary
slash pine
n. (taxlink Pinus elliottii species noshow=1), a pine tree native to the southeastern United States.
Usage examples of "slash pine".
She glided past an outcropping of hissing serpentine, between two sharp blades of slash pine, and on over the rungs of a fallen ladder-bush.
And then I noticed that the ten-acre stand of slash pine had disappeared--cut down and sold as firewood probably, and not replanted.
The clearing was filled with knee-high grass, and we were completely surrounded by second-growth slash pine.
And then I noticed that the ten-acre stand of slash pine had disappeared—.