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white pine
[white a. 11 b.]
1. N. Amer. Any of several North American pines, esp. Pinus strobus, which is native to eastern and central parts of the continent; also, the pale soft wood of such a tree. Cf. Weymouth.
1682Early Rec. Providence, Rhode Island (1899) XIV. 113 From y⊇ said heape of stones to range north..to a great white pine. 1767Quebec Gaz. 8 Dec. 3/1 They are hereby forbid to cut down..White Pine..on the lands above described. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxviii. (1794) 445 Weymouth Pine... In North America it is called White Pine, and is excellent for masts. 1893Scribner's Mag. June 697/1 The white-pine supply of this country stands in the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 1901J. Black's Carp. & Build., Home Handicr. ix. 78 The material for a drawing-board that is..most satisfactory in use, is white pine. 1948Reader's Digest Jan. 68/2 Of all American woods none has been more significant than white pine. 1961H. MacLennan Rivers of Canada 97 When Wright surveyed the Ottawa forests he found an abundance of white pine standing two hundred feet tall. 1973A. H. Whiteford North Amer. Indian Arts 107 White pine bark canoes were made by the Kutenai. 1974M. Braithwaite Ontario ix. 134 All about him..were great stands of white pines, tall trees stretching as straight as a ruler.
2. Austral. A tree belonging to any of several species of Podocarpus or Callitris. Cf. kahikatea, podocarp.
1855R. Taylor Te Ika a Maui 439 (Podocarpus excelsus.) This tree is generally called the white pine, from the color of its wood. 1888Cassell's Picturesque Australasia III. 210 (Morris). 1898Morris Austral Eng. s.v., White P[ine]—(In Australia) Frenela robusta,..Podocarpus elata. (In New Zealand) P. dacryoides. 1975D. Bagley Snow Tiger ii. 33 Gone were the stands of tall white pine and cedar, of kahikatea and kohekohe.
3. Special Combs.: white pine blister (rust), a rust disease of certain pines, caused by the fungus Cronartium ribicola, which spends part of its life cycle on gooseberry or currant bushes; white pine weevil, the larva of a brown beetle, Pissodes strobi, which tunnels in new shoots of certain pines.
1911Bull. U.S. Bureau Plant Industry No. 206. 9 The white-pine blister rust now imported into this country from Germany is caused by a heterœcious fungus. 1974M. Hoyt Thirty Miles vi. 66 We had currant bushes..before anybody knew they were an intermediate host to..white-pine blister.
1905Bull. Forestry Bureau (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 63. 14 The white pine weevil..is a reddish-brown snout beetle. 1976Columbus (Montana) News 27 May (Joliet Suppl.) 4/5 Whitepine weevil..can kill twigs and branches of some evergreens. |