Definition of American white pine

1. Noun. Tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree.

Exact synonyms: Eastern White Pine, Pinus Strobus, Weymouth Pine
Generic synonyms: White Pine

Lexicographical Neighbors of American White Pine

American sweetgum
American sweetgums
American sycamore
American tarantula
American toad
American trypanosomiasis
American turkey oak
American twinflower
American wall fern
American water ouzel
American water shrew
American water spaniel
American watercress
American white birch
American white oak
American white pine (current term)
American widgeon
American widgeons
American wire gauge
American wistaria
American wisteria
American woodcock
American wormseed
Americana
Americanese
Americanisation
Americanisations
Americanise
Americanised
Americanises

Literary usage of American white pine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Military Bridges: Including, Also, Designs for Trestle and Truss Bridges for by Hermann Haupt (1864)
"L=11.33, the pontoons being 14' 8" from axis to axis. c =570,* for American white spruce. c =658,* for American white pine. Substituting these values ..."

2. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1907)
"... Birch 850 Ibs. American Hickory and Bitter nit 800 Ibs. Larch and Tamarack 400 Ibs. Soft Maple., 750 Ibs. American white pine 450 Iba ' American ..."

3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"... more valuable than that of any other coniferous tree, the larch excepted, and for all economic purposes it is rated far above American white pine. ..."

4. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"With the extensive use of the American white pine in western Europe for forest-planting, it became widely distributed on this tree and was soon recognized ..."

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