torrey pine

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   medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones

   SynonymsTorrey's pinesoledad pinegrey-leaf pinesabine pinePinus torreyana

   Broaderpine

Questions about torrey pine

What does torrey pine mean?

torrey pine means "medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones".

What is another word for torrey pine?

Close synonyms include Torrey's pine, soledad pine, grey-leaf pine, sabine pine, Pinus torreyana. 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 torrey pine a common word?

torrey 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.