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tall spreading three-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head

1. : a tall spreading pine (Pinus taeda) of the central and southeastern United States with reddish brown fissured bark, leaves in groups of three, sessile cones having the umbones of the scales prolonged into spines, and a full bushy upper head — called also frankincense pine

2. : any of several shrubby to tall arboreal pines of the United States

1. a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.

2. the wood of this tree, used for timber and pulpwood.

[1750-60, Amer.]

loblolly pine,

= loblolly (def. 1). (Cf. ↑loblolly)