YELLOW PINE

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Meaning:

Hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("yellow pine" is a kind of...):

pine (straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus)

Holonyms ("yellow pine" is a substance of...):

yellow pine (any of various pines having yellow wood)

Meaning:

Any of various pines having yellow wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yellow pine" is a kind of...):

pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)

Meronyms (substance of "yellow pine"):

yellow pine (hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellow pine"):

bull pine; Pinus ponderosa; ponderosa; ponderosa pine; western yellow pine (common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature)

Georgia pine; longleaf pine; Pinus palustris; pitch pine; southern yellow pine (large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree)

Pinus echinata; short-leaf pine; shortleaf pine; shortleaf yellow pine (large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature)