SILVER PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver pine mean? 

• SILVER PINE (noun)
  The noun SILVER PINE has 2 senses:

1. timber tree of New Zealand having shiny white wood

2. tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature

  Familiarity information: SILVER PINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVER PINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Timber tree of New Zealand having shiny white wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lagarostrobus colensoi; silver pine; westland pine

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

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mountain pine; Pinus monticola; silver pine; western white pine

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

white pine (any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine)