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Definition of Torrey pine
1. Noun. Medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones.
Generic synonyms: Pine, Pine Tree, True Pine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torrey Pine
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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