slash pine
noun
: a pine (Pinus elliottii) of the southeastern U.S. that has two or three needles in a cluster and is a source of turpentine, lumber, and pulpwood
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Joe Hopkins’s family business has about 70,000 acres of slash pine in southeast Georgia. 
Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022 There are also patches of slash pine, and in some cases the mature slash pines have been heavily thinned out, creating openings for longleaf plantings to rise among them and gradually replace them. Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 9 Jan. 2022 The family settled on 2 1/2 acres of slash pine, sabal palm, and palmetto scrub in a sprawling semirural housing development on the outskirts of Naples, Florida, called Golden Gate Estates. Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2021 Trees available include slash pine, gumbo limbo, pigeon plum, Barbados cherry, jackfruit, mango and avocado. Kari Barnett, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2021 The webcam is located in a slash pine tree in Fort Myers, Florida. Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020 The suit alleges that the Brazilian plywood mills source all of their veneer from fast-growing plantations of loblolly and slash pine. David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2019 This includes 100-foot slash pine that could have fetched up to $60 a ton as utility poles before the storm, but now might be worth $2 to $3 a ton as pulp. Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2018 At noon the asphalt shimmers and the sand dazzles and at midnight the stars swim in an ink-black heaven above the cypress and the slash pine. Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018 See More
Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022 There are also patches of slash pine, and in some cases the mature slash pines have been heavily thinned out, creating openings for longleaf plantings to rise among them and gradually replace them. Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 9 Jan. 2022 The family settled on 2 1/2 acres of slash pine, sabal palm, and palmetto scrub in a sprawling semirural housing development on the outskirts of Naples, Florida, called Golden Gate Estates. Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2021 Trees available include slash pine, gumbo limbo, pigeon plum, Barbados cherry, jackfruit, mango and avocado. Kari Barnett, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2021 The webcam is located in a slash pine tree in Fort Myers, Florida. Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020 The suit alleges that the Brazilian plywood mills source all of their veneer from fast-growing plantations of loblolly and slash pine. David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2019 This includes 100-foot slash pine that could have fetched up to $60 a ton as utility poles before the storm, but now might be worth $2 to $3 a ton as pulp. Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2018 At noon the asphalt shimmers and the sand dazzles and at midnight the stars swim in an ink-black heaven above the cypress and the slash pine. Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018 See More Word History
Etymology
slash entry 3
First Known Use
circa 1882, in the meaning defined above