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SILVER PINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature
Synonyms:
mountain pine; Pinus monticola; silver pine; western white pine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("silver pine" is a kind of...):
white pine (any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Timber tree of New Zealand having shiny white wood
Synonyms:
Lagarostrobus colensoi; silver pine; westland pine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("silver pine" is a kind of...):
conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)
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