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yellow pine
noun
- any of several North American pines yielding a strong, yellowish wood.
- the wood of any such tree.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yellow pine1
An Americanism dating back to 1700–10
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Example Sentences
They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves.
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Upon the sides of the mountains and extending down into the valley are found beautiful groves of yellow pine timber.
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The timber growing in this region is principally yellow pine, spruce, balsam fir, and hemlock; among the bushes I noticed laurel.
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Other species are the alpine fir, Douglas spruce, limber pine, and Western yellow pine.
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Probably they were the ruins of yellow pine trees that before my day had perished in a forest fire.
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