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bull pine
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a slim, straight pine, Pinus contorta var. latifolia, common in the Rocky Mountain region, so called because the young trees make good lodgepoles.
See: lodgepole pine
Quotations
1890
Of the black or bull pine . . . the cambium layer is eaten when it is soft and gelatinous, at the time the leaves are still growing.
1955
The prairie rolled away to the north where it slid behind a growth of bullpine and giant poplar trees.
2†
the yellow pine, Pinus ponderosa, of the British Columbia dry belt.
Quotations
1906
The leading woods of British Columbia are red fir . . . bullpine. . . .
1958
The reek of the sea . . . changes . . . to the stinging, medicinal whiff of the bull pine. . . .