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Definition of Jersey pine
1. Noun. Common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2.
Generic synonyms: Pine, Pine Tree, True Pine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jersey Pine
Literary usage of Jersey pine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... A. Winter bud ( THE Jersey pine (Pinus Virginiana) This also is a scrub pine;
it grows on the pine barrens of New Jersey, a pendulous, discouraged tree. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1921)
"In the opinion of the present writer, an adequate explanation of their association
to make up the flora of the New Jersey pine-barrens is the fact that this ..."
3. Report on the Ship-building Industry of the United States by Henry Hall (1884)
"The timber used has been chiefly Jersey pine. ... The May's Landing yards have
always built with Jersey pine in the frames, ceiling, keelson, deck beams, ..."
4. The Forester's Manual: Or, The Forest Trees of Eastern North America by Ernest Thompson Seton (1912)
"... a dense thicket under great difficulties and was of very slow growth, the
disagreement between rings and whorls was puzzling. Jersey pine, SCRUB PINE. ..."
5. The Forest Tree Culturist: A Treatise on the Cultivation of American Forest by Andrew S Fuller (1866)
"43 shows the leaves, natural size, of the Jersey pine (Pinus inops). The leaves
and cones are the two most prominent characteristics that Fig. 43. Fig. 44. ..."
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