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lodgepole pine
[ loj-pohl ]
noun
- a tall, narrow, slow-growing coniferous tree, Pinus contorta, of western North America, having egg-shaped cones that remain closed for years.
- the wood of this tree, used as timber.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lodgepole pine1
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Example Sentences
Lodgepole pine has been shown to have a great value for telephone and telegraph poles when treated with preservatives.
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It was a lodgepole pine sixty or seventy feet away and several feet lower than my stand, on the side of a moraine.
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The meadow, bordered by red and white fir and Jeffrey and lodgepole pine, offers an attractive but cold campsite.
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The trail now leads almost level through lodgepole pine and fir forests, emerging suddenly at the foot of Long Meadow.
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We turn left, passing thru a beautiful forest of Jeffrey pine, lodgepole pine and fir.
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