Definition of Jack pine
1. Noun. Slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark.
Definition of Jack pine
1. Noun. an evergreen tree, Pinus banksiana, scrub pine ¹
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Literary usage of Jack pine
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1. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"FLORA OF THE JACK-PINE PLAINS. The plants of this region are all found in one or
more of the regions previously enumerated. The soil of these plains is ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The remaining 3.1 per cent was made up of western yellow pine, jack pine (eastern
and western), basswood, elm, ash, poplar, beech, oak, yellow cypress, ..."
3. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1911)
"SOME NOTES ON jack pine (Pinus divaricata) IN WESTERN ONTARIO.* BY LM ELUS.
The jack pine —Pinus banksiana or divaricata—does not rank with White Pine, ..."
4. Forest Mensuration by Herman Haupt Chapman (1921)
"... TABLE XLVII GROWTH OF jack pine, MINNESOTA * * From Bul. 820, U. 8. Dep.
Agr., 1920, Table 10, p. 14. 247. The Law of Diminishing Numbers as Affecting ..."
5. Handbook of West-American Cone-bearers by John Gill Lemmon (1900)
"Another small-cone pine, the "jack pine"—P.Sanks- itma—a native of the northern
States and Canada, approaches the Northwest in the region of British ..."
6. Michigan Flora: Prepared for the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Secretary of by William James Beal, Charles Fay Wheeler (1892)
"The following seventy species of plants are almost certain to be found in
considerable quantity on any extended area of Jack-pine plains: a. ..."
7. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1904)
"Almost the entire area chosen, which lies east and south of Cass Lake, is solid
Norway and jack pine land. In the southwest corner of the tract are a few ..."
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