DCHP-1 Online
bull pine 
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 also: lodgepole pine
- 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.
- 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. . . .
- 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.