lodgepole pine

[ loj-pohl ]

noun

1. a tall, narrow, slow-growing coniferous tree, Pinus contorta, of western North America, having egg-shaped cones that remain closed for years.
2. the wood of this tree, used as timber.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lodgepole pine¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; lodge + pole ¹

Example Sentences

Our first assignment wasn’t a wildfire but a cleanup project at Devils Postpile National Monument in the eastern Sierra Nevada, where a historic windstorm had been severe enough to uproot a distressing number of mature lodgepole pines.

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Lodgepole pine has been shown to have a great value for telephone and telegraph poles when treated with preservatives.

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It was a lodgepole pine sixty or seventy feet away and several feet lower than my stand, on the side of a moraine.

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The meadow, bordered by red and white fir and Jeffrey and lodgepole pine, offers an attractive but cold campsite.

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The trail now leads almost level through lodgepole pine and fir forests, emerging suddenly at the foot of Long Meadow.

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We turn left, passing thru a beautiful forest of Jeffrey pine, lodgepole pine and fir.

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