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PRICKLY PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prickly pine mean? 

PRICKLY PINE (noun)
  The noun PRICKLY PINE has 1 sense:

1. a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scalesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PRICKLY PINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hickory pine; Pinus pungens; prickly pine; table-mountain pine

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

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


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