a pine tree, Pinus radiata, native to the western USA. but grown in Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere to produce building timber
Often shortened to: radiata
Word origin
from New Latin
Examples of 'radiata pine' in a sentence
radiata pine
These xylem tissues represent six typical development stages in a rotation period of radiata pine.
Dillon Shannon K, Wu Harry X, Li Xinguo, Southerton Simon G 2009, 'Generation and analysis of expressed sequence tags from six developing xylem librariesin Pinus radiata D. Don', BMC Genomicshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/41. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)