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| white pine (plural white pines) |
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| Definition: |
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1. soft durable pine wood: the soft durable wood of a North American pine tree
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hyphenated before a noun
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2. N American pine tree: a fast-growing pine tree that is grown for its soft durable wood. Native to: eastern North America. Latin name Pinus strobus.
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3. pine similar to white pine: a pine that resembles the white pine, particularly in having five-needle clusters
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| [< its light-colored wood] |