lodgepole pine

lodge·pole pine

L0226800 (lŏj′pōl′)n. Any of several varieties of a pine (Pinus contorta) of western North America with needles grouped in pairs, especially P. contorta var. latifolia, having light wood used in construction.

lodge′pole pine′

(ˈlɒdʒˌpoʊl)
n. 1. a tall pine, Pinus contorta, of W North America, having one type of cone that opens and drops its seeds every second year and another, resin-covered cone that opens only when a fire burns off the resin. 2. the wood of this tree, used as timber. [1855–60]

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lodgepole pine - shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squareslodgepole, Pinus contorta, shore pine, spruce pinepine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree