jack pine

1. 1.

   slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark

   SynonymsPinus banksiana

   Broaderpine

Questions about jack pine

What does jack pine mean?

jack pine means "slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark".

What is another word for jack pine?

Close synonyms include Pinus banksiana. 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 jack pine a common word?

jack pine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.