knobcone pine

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   medium-sized three-needled pine of the Pacific coast of the United States having a prominent knob on each scale of the cone

   SynonymsPinus attenuata

   Broaderpine

Questions about knobcone pine

What does knobcone pine mean?

knobcone pine means "medium-sized three-needled pine of the Pacific coast of the United States having a prominent knob on each scale of the cone".

What is another word for knobcone pine?

Close synonyms include Pinus attenuata. 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 knobcone pine a common word?

knobcone 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.