loblolly pine

noun

1. a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.
2. the wood of this tree, used for timber and pulpwood.

Word History and Origins

Origin of loblolly pine¹

An Americanism dating back to 1750–60

Example Sentences

Timber production shifted to the uniform loblolly pine plantations of Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas.

From New York Times

At the edge of a thicket of loblolly pines, they stepped over a concrete slab decorated with a mural of a police car, overturned and aflame.

From Los Angeles Times

Probably a Pinus taeda, or loblolly pine, a slender conifer native to the Southeastern United States.

From New York Times

Vestiges of a past or harbingers of the future, the skeletons of once mighty oaks and elegant loblolly pines defy efforts to wholly preserve Tubman’s memory on these lands.

From New York Times

A loblolly pine in the Southeast and a ponderosa pine in the West grow at vastly different rates, complicating efforts to define maturity as a set number of years across multiple species.

From Washington Post