释义 |
white pine noun 1. a. : a tall-growing pine (Pinus strobus) of eastern No. America having smooth bark, long-stalked green cones, leaves in clusters of five, and young shoots with tufts of hair below the insertion of the leaf bundles — called also American white pine, eastern white pine; see tree illustration b. : any of several other evergreen trees felt to resemble the white pine especially in having leaves in bundles of five: as (1) : sugar pine (2) : western white pine (3) : limber pine (4) : lodgepole pine (5) : whitebark pine (6) : engelmann spruce c. : the wood of a white pine and especially of the eastern white pine which is much used in building construction 2. a. Australia (1) : any of several camphorwoods (especially Callitris robusta) (2) : she-pine (3) : colonial pine b. New Zealand : kahikatea |