"white pine" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young;
Especially the eastern white pine (synset 111633374)
is a type of: pine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree
subtypes:
- american white pine, eastern white pine, pinus strobus, weymouth pine - tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree
- mountain pine, pinus monticola, silver pine, western white pine - tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature
- pinus strobiformis, southwestern white pine - medium-size pine of northwestern Mexico; bark is dark brown and furrowed when mature
- limber pine, pinus flexilis - western North American pine with long needles and very flexible limbs and dark-grey furrowed bark
- pinus albicaulis, whitebark pine, whitebarked pine - small pine of western North America; having smooth grey-white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine
substance holonym: white pine - soft white wood of white pine trees
Soft white wood of white pine trees (synset 111629702)
is a type of: pine - straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

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