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BRISTLECONE PINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small slow-growing upland pine of western United States (Rocky Mountains) having dense branches with fissured rust-brown bark and short needles in bunches of 5 and thorn-tipped cone scales; among the oldest living things some over 4500 years old
Synonyms:
bristlecone pine; Pinus aristata; Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bristlecone pine" is a kind of...):
pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)
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