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    ANCIENT PINE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain topsplay

    Synonyms:

    ancient pine; Pinus longaeva

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("ancient pine" is a kind of...):

    pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)

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