Definition of "ocote" [ocote]

• The common Mexican or candlewood pine (which see, under pine). In New Mexico the word is used to designate very resinous pine-wood. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They represent one of the few examples of lowland and premontane pine forests in the Neotropics, where the predominant tree species is Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis (pine, ocote), which requires periodic low intensity burns for its regeneration."
• "Three or four bits of ocote, each bit no bigger than a long finger, flickered and rose in quick flames from the stone, and the courtyard danced with shadow."
• "Then he came running from the house with a bit of burning ocote wood."