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Definition of Prickly pine
1. Noun. A small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales.
Generic synonyms: Pine, Pine Tree, True Pine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prickly Pine
Literary usage of Prickly pine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"prickly pine (NC). Finus muricata Don. California Swamp Fine. RANGE.—California
coast (Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, and south iu coast ..."
2. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"It also produces turpentine. Commercially it ia not distinguished from P. taeda.
prickly pine excepting color—to the Scotch Pine, Pinus pungens ..."
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