Definition of Pinus flexilis

1. Noun. Western North American pine with long needles and very flexible limbs and dark-grey furrowed bark.

Exact synonyms: Limber Pine
Generic synonyms: White Pine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinus Flexilis

Pintos
Pintupi
Pintupis
Pinus albicaulis
Pinus aristata
Pinus attenuata
Pinus banksiana
Pinus californiarum
Pinus cembra
Pinus cembroides
Pinus contorta
Pinus contorta murrayana
Pinus densiflora
Pinus echinata
Pinus edulis
Pinus flexilis (current term)
Pinus glabra
Pinus jeffreyi
Pinus longaeva
Pinus monophylla
Pinus monticola
Pinus mugo
Pinus muricata
Pinus nigra
Pinus palustris
Pinus parryana
Pinus pinea
Pinus ponderosa
Pinus pungens
Pinus quadrifolia

Literary usage of Pinus flexilis

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

1. Plant Indicators: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice by Frederic Edward Clements (1920)
"Pinus flexilis is much less important, though it has the widest range of all, ... Pinus flexilis and P. albicaulis may occur in the community here also, ..."

2. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"For, on Pinus flexilis, H274 in 1962 (FPF); 18 mi. ... SE of Bondurant on US 189, H 546 in 1963 (FPF) and on Pinus flexilis, H 547 in 1963 (FPF); 12.3 mi. ..."

3. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"Boulder and Manitou, Colorado, in cones of Pinus flexilis. Length 2.95-3.30 mm. Length, female type, 3.15 mm.; Mount Manitou, Colorado, in Pinus flexilis, ..."

4. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"8800. REMARKS. This tree forms mountain forests of considerable extent. 1 See also "Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis" James (United States Forest Service, ..."

5. Application of Rflp & Rapd Molecular Technologies to Plant Breeding: A edited by Andrew Kalinski (1994)
"... DNA; PROGENY-TESTING; GENE-EXPRESSION; PINUS-LAMBERTIANA; PINUS-FLEXILIS CT: Basic 100%; Applied 0%; Developmental 0% 97 of 509 AN: ..."

6. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1906)
"... is near the treeline in California, while Pinus flexilis, another white pine growing at accessible altitudes near the northern boundary of the United ..."

7. Wild Flowers and Trees of Colorado by Francis Ramaley (1909)
"long, the scales smooth, without spines Pinus flexilis 3a- I/eaves short, ... Pinus flexilis James. LIMBER PINE. WHITE PINE. Leaves in bundles of 5; stout, ..."

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