| black pine | |
noun | |
| 1. | conifer of Australia and New Zealand [syn: matai] |
| 2. | New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry [syn: miro] |
| 3. | large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog [syn: Japanese black pine] |
| 4. | 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 [syn: Jeffrey pine] |
| 5. | large two-needled timber pine of southeastern Europe |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |