BRISTLECONE PINE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bristlecone pine; Pinus aristata; Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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