DCHP-2

bull pine DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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. . . .