white pine

Questions about white pine

What does white pine mean?

white pine means "any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is white pine a common word?

white 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.