Pitch pine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    Pinus palustris; Georgia pine; southern yellow pine; longleaf pine.
  2. noun large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine
    Pinus rigida; northern pitch pine.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), any one of several species of pine, yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.

Webster 1913