Definition of Torrey pine

1. Noun. Medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Torrey Pine

Torontonian
Torontonians
Torpedinidae
Torpediniformes
Torquay
Torquemada
Torquemadan
Torquil
Torre's syndrome
Torrens title
Torreon
Torres Strait
Torres Strait Creole
Torrey's pine
Torrey pine
Torrey tree
Torreya
Torreya californica
Torreya taxifolia
Torricelli
Torricellian
Torricellian barometer
Torrid Zone
Torschlusspanik
Torsten Sjogren's syndrome
Tortricidae
Torulopsis
Torwali
Torx head

Literary usage of Torrey pine

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

1. Handbook of West-American Cone-bearers by John Gill Lemmon (1900)
"... for their usually divided trunk or very long limbs, and for their heavy, spine-bearing cones. Three species in California:— No. 19—torrey pine - - P- ..."

2. Handbook of West-American Cone-bearers by John Gill Lemmon (1900)
"... for their usually divided trunk or very long limbs, and for their heavy, spine-bearing cones. Three species in California:— No. 19—torrey pine - - P- ..."

3. California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride from Mexico to Oregon by Joseph Smeaton Chase (1913)
"... towns — Del Mar: the torrey pine — The old Alvarado ranch- house: an incident of "the eternal feminine" — The decay of the historic Spanish-California ..."

4. California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride from Mexico to Oregon by Joseph Smeaton Chase (1913)
"... towns — Del Mar: the torrey pine — The old Alvarado ranch- house: an incident of "the eternal feminine" — The decay of the historic Spanish-California ..."

5. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"Under the influence of a different climate and of cultivation the torrey pine exhibits at Berkeley a much modified habit. In the Botanic Garden of the ..."

6. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"torrey pine. 12. PINUS TORREYANA Parry. Fig. 48. ... torrey pine is a low crooked or sprawling tree 15 to 35 feet high, or sometimes straight and 60 fee^ ..."

7. Report by California Division of Forestry (1919)
"Other coast species like Bishop pine, Monterey cypress and torrey pine owe ... torrey pine (Pinus torreyana). torrey pine occurs only on a small area on the ..."

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