Austrian pine

noun

1. a widely cultivated pine, Pinus nigra, native to Europe and Asia Minor, growing to a height of more than 100 feet (30 meters), often planted as a windbreak.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Austrian pine¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

The far rough framing holes consists of native sagebrush, along with patches of flowering purple flax and transplanted aspen, chokecherry, maple, willow, spruce and Austrian pine.

From Golf Digest

What a tonic this 2,000-acre urban forest and prairie is, with its coolly shaded footpaths snaking through stands of Austrian pine.

From New York Times

All right angles and clean lines of white terrazzo and Austrian pine, the hotel has a monastic air unto itself.

From New York Times

According to the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York, the state’s varieties include: Fraser fir, Douglas fir, balsam fir, concolor fir, Canaan fir, blue spruce, white spruce, white pine, Scotch pine, Austrian pine, Serbian spruce, Nordmann fir, Grand fir and Norway spruce.

From New York Times

It was a big yellow-billed blackbird, that flew out with startled cry from a small Austrian pine tree.

From Project Gutenberg