Definition of Pinus pungens

1. Noun. A small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinus Pungens

Pinus echinata
Pinus edulis
Pinus flexilis
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 (current term)
Pinus quadrifolia
Pinus radiata
Pinus resinosa
Pinus rigida
Pinus serotina
Pinus strobiformis
Pinus strobus
Pinus sylvestris
Pinus taeda
Pinus thunbergii
Pinus torreyana
Pinus virginiana
Pinxter
Pinyin

Literary usage of Pinus pungens

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Pinus pungens Lambert : Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. 1: 61. pi. 5. 1810. A tree with a maximum height of about 60° and trunk diameter of 3$°, the branches ..."

2. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1913)
"Pinus pungens in the District of Columbia History.—Written July 25, 1877. The discovery was made July 226.. I afterwards found a single specimen in the ..."

3. A Description of the Genus Pinus: With Directions Relative to the by Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1832)
"Pinus pungens. Mich. Arb. 1. p. 61. t. 5. Pursh FI. Amer. Sept. 2. p. 643. Habitat in Carolina montibus ..."

4. Pamphlets on Forest Protection (1915)
"In 1914 the senior writer found Pinus pungens, P. rigida, and P. virginiana closely associated in a mixed ... In this instance Pinus pungens was attacked by ..."

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