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Definition of Silver pine
1. Noun. Timber tree of New Zealand having shiny white wood.
2. Noun. Tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature.
Definition of Silver pine
1. Noun. A tree, ''Manoao colensoi'', endemic to New Zealand. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Pine
Literary usage of Silver pine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Valuation of American Timberlands by Karl Wilson Woodward (1921)
"This does not, of course, mean that the dominant species, silver pine (Pinus ...
While silver pine is the most abundant species and the most important ..."
2. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"The silver pine, also called Western White Pine and Mountain Pine, ... In California,
silver pine occurs mainly in the Sierra Nevada where it is found ..."
3. North America by Israel Cook Russell (1904)
"As might be inferred from its wide distribution, the silver pine had adapted
itself to a great range of conditions, not only of climate, but of soil and ..."
4. New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand Dept. of Statistics (1899)
"Great Barrier Island, and Ngauruhoe district; the west coast of South Island,
and Martin's Bay. This in often called " silver-pine," or " white silver-pine ..."
5. The Forests of the Flathead Valley, Montana by Harry Nichols Whitford (1905)
"It succumbs easily to fires, \$yany instances being noted where fires had swept
through the forests destroying the silver pine, while such trees as western ..."
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