table-mountain pine

1. 1.

   a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales

   Synonymsprickly pinehickory pinePinus pungens

   Broaderpine

Questions about table-mountain pine

What does table-mountain pine mean?

table-mountain pine means "a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales".

What is another word for table-mountain pine?

Close synonyms include prickly pine, hickory pine, Pinus pungens. 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 table-mountain pine a common word?

table-mountain 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.