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loblolly pine

noun

  1. a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.
  2. the wood of this tree, used for timber and pulpwood.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of loblolly pine1

An Americanism dating back to 1750–60

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Example Sentences

Over the course of 2020, I bought around 20 to keep me company in a year of isolation, including a couple loblolly pines, a cute little boxwood, and the largest and priciest of the lot, a majestic four-foot deodar cedar.

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It is usually much more permeable to air, even in green wood, notably so in loblolly pine and even in white oak.

The amount of loblolly pine timber in this country is not known.

The loblolly pine grows with a straight, naked shaft and pyramidal head, often without branches, to the height of fifty feet.

We had got beyond the denser thickets of the loblolly pine, and could better see what we were about.

The sapwood of Osage orange is scarcely half an inch thick, and in loblolly pine it may be six inches or more.

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