Definition of "pine" []

• Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Pinus, having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody, seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar. (noun)
• Any of various other coniferous trees, such as the Norfolk Island pine. (noun)
• The wood of any of these trees. (noun)
• To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire. (verb-intransitive)
• To wither or waste away from longing or grief: pined away and died. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Comparisons: The Scotch pine is apt to be confused with the _Austrian pine_ (_Pinus austriaca_), because they both have two needles to each cluster."
• "To the north of the Neuse river loams and loose loams are the more frequent upland soils and the growth is loblolly pine (North Carolina pine*"
• "The entire place is swathed in pine walls, floors and counters."