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PINUS LONGAEVA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pinus longaeva mean? 

PINUS LONGAEVA (noun)
  The noun PINUS LONGAEVA 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 topsplay

  Familiarity information: PINUS LONGAEVA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PINUS LONGAEVA (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 ("Pinus longaeva" is a kind of...):

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


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