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white pine † 

• 1a a tall, stately pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern Canada, much used for shipmasts in colonial days and providing the basis for the lumber industry.

  See also: buckwheat pine  pumpkin pine  Quebec pine  Weymouth pine  

• 1b the light, soft wood of this tree.

• 2 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  

• 3 Lumbering the western white pine, especially with reference to its wood.

  See also: western white pine