buckwheat pine

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the white pine (def. la), which has a cone resembling buckwheat flour in color.

See: white pine(def. 1a)

Quotations

1833

. . . I did not expect to find the Canadians an ignorant people . . . as inaccessible to light as the buck-wheat pines of Dorchester or Galt.