heart pine
chiefly US
noun
The dense heartwood of a mature pine tree, especially of the longleaf pine, Pinus palustris.
Origin
Late 18th century.
- the other way round (or around; also about)
- Theotokos
- the/our Saviour
- the Outer House of the Court of Session
- the Ozarks
- the Pacific
- the Pale
- the Pamirs
- the Pandects
- the Paralympics
- the Paris Commune
- the Parquet
- the Paschal Lamb
- the Passion
- the path of least resistance
- the patter of tiny feet
- the pen is mightier than the sword
- the Pennines
- the penny dropped
- the People
- the pit of one's (or the) stomach
- the plot thickens
- the Plough
- the Poconos
- the point of no return