mountain pine

Questions about mountain pine

What does mountain pine mean?

mountain pine means "evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mountain pine?

Close synonyms include pahautea, Libocedrus bidwillii, western white pine, silver pine, Pinus monticola. 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 mountain pine a common word?

mountain 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.