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Definition of "red pine" []

  • An evergreen timber tree (Pinus resinosa) of northeast North America, having long flexible glossy leaves grouped in fascicles of two. Also called Norway pine. (noun)

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.

Use "red pine" in a sentence
  • "We have also but one pine, though that one is the chief of its family; the noble white pine, the pride of the Alleghanies; neither the yellow, the pitch, nor the red pine is known here, so far as one can discover."