ANCIENT PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ancient pine mean? 

• ANCIENT PINE (noun)
  The noun ANCIENT PINE has 1 sense:

1. small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops

  Familiarity information: ANCIENT PINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANCIENT PINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ancient pine; Pinus longaeva

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

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