BRISTLECONE PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bristlecone pine mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRISTLECONE PINE (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bristlecone pine; Pinus aristata; Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine

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

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