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whitebark pine

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white·bark pine  (hwtbärk, wt-)
n.
A prostrate shrub or tree (Pinus albicaulis) native to the mountains of Pacific North America and having small, purplish-brown, ovoid seed-bearing cones.
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Noun1.whitebark pine - small pine of western North Americawhitebark pine - small pine of western North America; having smooth grey-white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine
Pinus albicaulis, whitebarked pine
white pine - any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine
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