white pine

white pine
1. a large, irregularly branched pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern North America, having gray bark and yielding a light-colored, soft, light wood of great commercial importance.
2. the wood itself.
3. any of various other similar species of pine.
[1675-85, Amer.]

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