Lambert pine

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:47:24

Lam"bert pine` (?). [So called from Lambert, an English botanist.] Bot.

The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.

 

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