Definition of Pinus banksiana

1. Noun. Slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark.

Exact synonyms: Jack Pine
Generic synonyms: Pine, Pine Tree, True Pine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinus Banksiana

Pins' sign
Pins' syndrome
Pinsk
Pinter
Pinteresque
Pinterian
Pinterish
Pinto
Pintoes
Pintos
Pintupi
Pintupis
Pinus albicaulis
Pinus aristata
Pinus attenuata
Pinus banksiana (current term)
Pinus californiarum
Pinus cembra
Pinus cembroides
Pinus contorta
Pinus contorta murrayana
Pinus densiflora
Pinus echinata
Pinus edulis
Pinus flexilis
Pinus glabra
Pinus jeffreyi
Pinus longaeva
Pinus monophylla
Pinus monticola

Literary usage of Pinus banksiana

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

1. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"SE of Cumberland House on Pinus banksiana, Crawford in 1967 (FPF, WINF); S shore of Lake Athabaska, on Pinus banksiana, McLeod in 1966 ..."

2. The Forester's Manual: Or, The Forest Trees of Eastern North America by Ernest Thompson Seton (1912)
"(Pinus banksiana) Evergreen; 40 to feet high; rarely 100. Leaves in bunches of 2, and 1 to 2\ inches long; cone, 1 to 2 inches long. Dr. Robt. ..."

3. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1899)
"Pinus banksiana ON MT. DESERT ISLAND. — Since the discovery of the northern scrub pine (Pinus banksiana, Lamb.) on Schoodic Mountain and about Prospect ..."

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