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slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark

1. : a slender No. American pine (Pinus banksiana) having two stout twisted leaves in each fascicle, one-sided curved cones with spiny-tipped scales, and wood that is used especially for boxwood and pulpwood

2. : bristlecone pine

3. : lodgepole pine

4. : limber pine

a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones. Also called gray pine.

[1880-85]

jack pine noun

Any of several N American species of pine

Main Entry: ↑jack

jack pine,

a slender pine tree growing in barren or rocky soil in the northeastern and midwestern United States and in Canada.

n. a small, hardy North American pine with very short needles, found chiefly in Canada. ● Pinus banksiana, family Pinaceae