bristlecone pine

Meaning

Noun

• Any of a small number of different small, slow-growing pine trees found in the western United States, of Pinus subg. Ducampopinus (subgenus), Pinus subsect. Balfourianae (subsection), some of which are over 4,000 years old.

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Narrower meaning words

• Rocky Mountains bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata (species)) of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona; Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva (species)), of Utah, Nevada, and eastern California; foxtail pine (Pinus balfouriana (species)), of California and southern Oregon.