pitch pine

Questions about pitch pine

What does pitch pine mean?

pitch pine means "large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for pitch pine?

Close synonyms include longleaf pine, southern yellow pine, Georgia pine, Pinus palustris, northern pitch pine. 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 pitch pine a common word?

pitch 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.