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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A tall timber tree (Pinus ponderosa) of western North America, having long, dark green needles grouped in fascicles of three.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature

Etymologies

  1. Translation of New Latin Pīnus ponderōsa : Latin pīnus, pine-tree + Latin ponderōsa, feminine of ponderōsus, heavy; see ponderous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “My YCC site was in the North Cascades National Park in Washington State, a breathtakingly gorgeous region with terrain ranging from alpine peaks and glaciers dotted with crystal blue lakes that literally sparkled in the sun to lowland forests, from mossy dark green water-soaked temperate rainforests to dry ponderosa pine ecosystems.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE STORY OF STUFF

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  1. pine
  1. heavy-pine
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  1. jeffrey's pine
  1. black pine
  1. yellow pine

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