bishop pine

1. 1.

   two-needled or three-needled pinon mostly of northwestern California coast

   Synonymsbishop's pinePinus muricata

   Broaderpinon

Questions about bishop pine

What does bishop pine mean?

bishop pine means "two-needled or three-needled pinon mostly of northwestern California coast".

What is another word for bishop pine?

Close synonyms include bishop's pine, Pinus muricata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bishop pine a common word?

bishop pine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.