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Jersey pine   /dʒˈərzi paɪn/   Listen
Jersey pine

noun
1.
Common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2.  Synonyms: Pinus virginiana, scrub pine, Virginia pine.






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"Jersey pine" Quotes from Famous Books



... growing in the pine barrens of New Jersey, affords quite as conclusive proof of the correctness of the Bible genesis of life as the phenomenal appearance of Japan clover in the South. It was at one time supposed that this most delicate and beautiful of all our ferns was peculiar to the New Jersey pine barrens. But it has been ascertained that it grows quite as abundantly in similar barrens in New Zealand, which are in the south temperate zone, at about the same latitude south, that these pine barrens of New Jersey occupy in the temperate zone north. So that, at whatever period this fern ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright



Words linked to "Jersey pine" :   scrub pine, true pine, pine tree, pine



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