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单词 white pine
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white pinen.adj.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪt ˈpʌɪn/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪt ˈpaɪn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., pine n.2
Etymology: < white adj. + pine n.2
A. n.
1. Chiefly North American. Any of a group of North American pines producing softwood with a pale colour and uniform texture, spec. Pinus strobus, native to eastern and central parts of the continent (also called eastern white pine). Also: the wood of any of these trees.Other members of this group of pines include P. monticola, P. lambertiana, P. flexilis, and P. strobiformis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > American white pine
white pine1682
masting-pine1755
Weymouth Pine1755
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American
arrowwood1578
white pine1682
wicopy1704
American olive1772
pumpkin pine1809
mountain mahogany1810
redwood1819
western yellow pine1857
western hemlock1867
western red cedar1874
Sitka cedar1875
ponderosa1878
walking stick1910
1682 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1899) XIV. 113 From ye said heape of stones to range north..to a great white pine.
1767 Quebec Gaz. 8 Dec. 3/1 They are hereby forbid to cut down..White Pine..on the lands above described.
1785 T. Martyn in tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxviii. 445 Weymouth Pine... In North America it is called White Pine, and is excellent for masts.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum I. i. iv. 183 When the ground became in the least degree elevated, white pines abounded.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 697/1 The white-pine supply of this country stands in the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
1893 B. Torrey Footpath-Way 232 I cannot recollect the day when I did not regard the Weymouth pine (the white pine I was taught to call it..) with something like reverence.
1948 Reader's Digest Jan. 68/2 Of all American woods none has been more significant than white pine.
1961 H. MacLennan Rivers of Canada 97 When Wright surveyed the Ottawa forests he found an abundance of white pine standing two hundred feet tall.
2012 Titusville (Pa.) Herald 26 Nov. 4/2 There's no mistaking an eastern hemlock for a white pine.
2. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
a. More fully New Zealand white pine. The kahikatea, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides; the pale wood of this tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > other conifers
juniper1748
bald cypress1785
Norfolk Island pine1803
Norfolk pine1804
taxodium1821
kahikatea1823
Moreton Bay pine1826
mai1831
matai1831
white pine1833
podocarp1846
black rue1864
plum fir1866
cephalotaxus1883
hoop-pine1884
mountain hemlock1884
tide-land spruce1891
kahika1921
Leyland's cypress1933
Metasequoia1941
1833 Sydney Herald 6 May (advt.) The entire cargo of the brig ‘Helen,’ consisting of 381 square logs of New Zealand White Pine.
1834 Church Missionary Record Nov. 255/2 The land appears to be exceedingly rich, and, on one side, is clothed with a dense forest of the white pine.
1855 R. Taylor Te Ika a Maui 439 (Podocarpus excelsus.) This tree is generally called the white pine, from the color of its wood.
1929 Queenslander 19 Dec. 63/4 New Zealand White Pine is generally whiter in colour and about 7lb. per cubic foot lighter than Queensland Hoop.
1975 D. Bagley Snow Tiger ii. 33 Gone were the stands of tall white pine and cedar, of kahikatea and kohekohe.
2009 J. Fitter New Zealand Wildlife Bradt. Trav. Guides 124/2 The kahikatea or white pine..is found on the edges of swamps.
b. Any of various evergreen coniferous trees of Australia, typically having pale wood or foliage; the wood of any of these trees. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > evergreens
pine1788
angophora1804
ohia1815
pate1832
pohutukawa1832
Moreton Bay chestnut1836
Olearia1839
horopito1847
ramarama1848
matipo1853
white pine1856
musk tree1866
manoao1867
patete1867
puka1867
rangiora1867
tawhiri1872
tarata1876
lemon-wood1879
Otago ivy-tree1883
horizontal1888
lehua1888
inanga1889
mountain pine1889
puka1889
Queensland kauri1889
sheep-bush1889
wilga1889
mutton-bird tree1891
tree-daisy1926
1856 Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 69/2 Podocarpus spinulosus... White Pine of Brisbane Water.
1892 Sydney Morning Herald 9 Apr. 4/6 We have but one Araucaria.., but it is the most important of all our pines... It also goes by the name of white pine.
1917 J. H. Maiden Forestry Handbk. II. 152 In northern New South Wales the timber [sc. of Araucaria Cunninghammii] often goes under the name of ‘White Pine’.
1953 Wellington (New S. Wales) Times 24 Aug. 4/4 As a result of the control of rabbits and the exclusion of stock, regeneration of white pine (Callitris glauca)..has been remarkable.
B. adj.
Made of wood from a white pine.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > other specific tree
aldernOE
ashena1400
terebinthenc1440
elmen1466
yewen1501
Brazil1577
walnut-tree1687
arbuteana1706
white pine1708
mahogany1730
teak-built1835
1708 Boston Selectmen 30 Aug. White-pine boards..and other lumber.
1819 A. L. Hillhouse tr. F. A. Michaux N. Amer. Sylva III. 165 The principal superiority of the White Pine masts over those brought from Riga is their lightness.
1844 Knickerbocker Mag. 23 444 The clean white-pine buckets..into which the sap drips..are made expressly for this use.
1913 Amer. Contractor 12 July 95/3 During colonial times the cargoes of England and America were carried under white pine decks.
1934 Townsville (Queensland) Daily Bull. 6 Jan. 9/6 They sawed a white pine log through in 11 4-5 seconds.
2001 This Old House Apr. 28/1 You could mill tongues and grooves on the edges and have some great white pine paneling.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
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1769 in Boston Evening Transcript (1911) 28 Sept. iii. 12 I have viewed the White pine Timber standing and growing on said Spaulding's land.
1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 197 The tract..is white pine land.
1815–16 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 (Suppl.) 178/1 I observed hundreds—and I believe thousands of roads of strong substantial and durable fence, made of white pine stumps.
1885 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier xviii. 129 Shiny, sugary, and artificially crimson roasted apples, with neatly whittled white-pine stems to poise them on.
1909 P. Spaulding Present Status of White-pine Blights (U.S.D.A. Bur. Plant Industry Circular No. 35) 11 The white-pine blight is a complex of several different diseases.
1966 Waunakee (Wisconsin) Tribune 1 Dec. 5/5 The federal move was in line with recent studies which showed protection for the white pine industry could best be provided by the states.
2013 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 11 Jan. a4/1 It [sc. a sawmill] was not a big success—hard to believe considering the white pine forest that dominated the region.
C2.
white pine blister rust n. (also white pine blister) a rust disease causing canker formation and death of Pinus strobus and other white pines (sense A. 1), caused by the heteroecious basidiomycete fungus Cronartium ribicola, the intermediate hosts of which are currants and gooseberries (genus Ribes).The fungus was introduced into North America from Europe in the early 20th cent., causing major losses in commercial plantations of white pine.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees
heart rot1808
white rot1828
sap-rot1838
red rot1847
conk1851
soft rot1886
pine blister1889
silver-leaf1890
leaf shedding1891
pine rust1893
leaf cast1894
partridge-wood1894
larch blister1895
needle-cast1895
sooty mould1901
white pine blister rust1909
larch needle cast1921
coral-spot1923
ink disease1923
pocket rot1926
wood rot1926
Dutch elm disease1927
oak wilt1942
ash dieback1957
1909 Forestry Q. 7 231 Another disease of a very serious nature has been imported into this country... It's most common name is the White Pine Blister Rust.
1974 M. Hoyt Thirty Miles for Ice Cream vi. 66 We had currant bushes..before anybody knew they were an intermediate host to..white-pine blister.
2008 Independent 12 Jan. (Mag.) 41/1 They helped spread the disease White Pine Blister Rust, threatening the nation's lumber market.
white pine weevil n. a small reddish-brown weevil of North America, Pissodes strobi, the larvae of which bore tunnels in and kill young shoots of various kinds of pine and spruce.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Curculionidae or genus Curculio > pissodes or hylobius abietus (pine-weevil)
pine weevil1817
white pine weevil1817
1817 W. D. Peck in Mass. Agric. Jrnl. 4 209 Fig. 2 and 3 represent the Rynchaenus Strobi, or White Pine Weevil of its natural size and magnified.
1905 S. N. Spring Natural Replacement White Pine New Eng. (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 63) 14 The white pine weevil..is a reddish-brown snout beetle.
1976 Columbus (Montana) News 27 May (Joliet Suppl.) 4/5 Whitepine weevil..can kill twigs and branches of some evergreens.
2004 Northern Woodlands Summer 4/3 Dead terminal shoots of white pines killed by the white pine weevil are now evident.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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