ANCIENT PINE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

ancient pine; Pinus longaeva

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ancient pine" is a kind of...):

pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)

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