单词 | ridge-pole pine |
释义 | > as lemmasridge-pole pine ridge-pole pine n. rare a lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta subsp. latifolia or P. contorta subsp. murrayana. ΚΠ 1885 T. Roosevelt Hunting Trips 306 The forest was composed mainly of what are called ridge-pole pines, which..do not branch out until the stems are thirty or forty feet from the ground. 1891 Cent. Dict. at Tamarack 2. The abundant black or ridge-pole pine, Pinus Murrayana. 1962 Lake Charles Amer. Press 21 Sept. 6/3 The top of a ridgepole pine snapped in the wind. 2003 B. Wright Plain Lang. viii. 148 The only thing that prevented the car's headlong descent into a ravine was a slender ridgepole pine. < as lemmas |
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