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Definition of Ponderosa
1. Noun. Common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature.
Generic synonyms: Yellow Pine
Definition of Ponderosa
1. Noun. A ponderosa pine, ''Pinus ponderosa'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ponderosa
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ponderosa
Literary usage of Ponderosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"Exogyra ponderosa Shumard, 1854, Marcy's Exploration Red River, Louisiana, p.
178. ... Exogyra ponderosa Hill and Vaughan, 1902, Geol. Atlas US Geol. ..."
2. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"Pinus ponderosa Laws. Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) Big Pine. ... Trees are often
killed by beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosa') and the wood of such trees later ..."
3. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"The virtual absence of old ponderosa pine trees could be attributed to ...
Size class distributions varied between mountain ranges for ponderosa pine stands ..."
4. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1902)
"The writer started the first ponderosa pines from the seed here in 1890. ...
Of the ponderosa, about twenty-five per cent failed to come through, ..."
5. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"N of Woodland Park, on Pinus ponderosa, H1493 in 1974 (FPF) .... S of Pingree
Park rd, on Pinus ponderosa, H 563 in 1964 ..."
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