noun
common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2
• Syn: ↑scrub pine, ↑Jersey pine, ↑Pinus virginiana
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nounUsage: usually capitalized V
1. : longleaf pine
2. : loblolly pine 1
3. : a scrub pine (Pinus virginiana)
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a pine tree, Pinus virginiana, of the eastern U.S., that grows in poor soil and has needles in groups of two. Also called Jersey pine.
[1765-75]
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Virginia pine,
the scrub pine of the Eastern United States.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.