true pine

1. A coniferous tree (synset 111628701)
   is a type of: conifer, coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
   subtypes:

   • pinon, pinyon - any of several low-growing pines of western North America
   • pinus glabra, spruce pine - large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood
   • black pine, pinus nigra - large two-needled timber pine of southeastern Europe
   • northern pitch pine, pinus rigida, pitch pine - large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine
   • pinus serotina, pond pine - large three-needled pine of sandy swamps of southeastern United States; needles longer than those of the northern pitch pine
   • european nut pine, pinus pinea, stone pine, umbrella pine - medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown; widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds
   • arolla pine, cembra nut tree, pinus cembra, swiss pine, swiss stone pine - large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate
   • dwarf mountain pine, mountain pine, mugho pine, mugo pine, pinus mugo, swiss mountain pine - low shrubby pine of central Europe with short bright green needles in bunches of two
   • ancient pine, pinus longaeva - 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
   • white pine - any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine
   • yellow pine - any of various pines having yellow wood
   • black pine, jeffrey pine, jeffrey's pine, pinus jeffreyi - tall symmetrical pine of western North America having long blue-green needles in bunches of 3 and elongated cones on spreading somewhat pendulous branches; sometimes classified as a variety of ponderosa pine
   • lodgepole, lodgepole pine, pinus contorta, shore pine, spruce pine - shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares
   • pinus contorta murrayana, sierra lodgepole pine - tall subspecies of lodgepole pine
   • frankincense pine, loblolly pine, pinus taeda - tall spreading three-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head
   • jack pine, pinus banksiana - slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark
   • swamp pine - any of several pines that prefer or endure moist situations such as loblolly pine or longleaf pine
   • canadian red pine, pinus resinosa, red pine - pine of eastern North America having long needles in bunches of two and reddish bark
   • pinus sylvestris, scotch fir, scotch pine, scots pine - medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark
   • jersey pine, pinus virginiana, scrub pine, virginia pine - common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2
   • monterey pine, pinus radiata - tall California pine with long needles in bunches of 3, a dense crown, and dark brown deeply fissured bark
   • bristlecone pine, pinus aristata, rocky mountain bristlecone pine - 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
   • hickory pine, pinus pungens, prickly pine, table-mountain pine - a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales
   • knobcone pine, pinus attenuata - medium-sized three-needled pine of the Pacific coast of the United States having a prominent knob on each scale of the cone
   • japanese red pine, japanese table pine, pinus densiflora - pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature; grown as an ornamental
   • black pine, japanese black pine, pinus thunbergii - large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog
   • grey-leaf pine, pinus torreyana, sabine pine, soledad pine, torrey pine, torrey's pine - medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones
   belongs to: genus pinus, pinus - type genus of the Pinaceae: large genus of true pines
   has: pinecone - the seed-producing cone of a pine tree
   substance holonym: pine - straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
   same as: pine, pine tree

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