Jeffrey pine

Jeffrey pine

noun
a conifer, Pinus jeffreyi, of high mountains in the western U.S., having long needles, large cones, and aromatic bark.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; after John Jeffrey (1826–54), Scottish gardener, who collected plants in the Pacific Northwest, 1850–54
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jeffrey pine

noun
tall symmetrical pine of western North America having long blue-green needles in bunches of 3 and elongated cones on spreading somewhat pendulous branches; sometimes classified as a variety of ponderosa pine 
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