umbrella pine


noun
  1. a Japanese evergreen tree, Sciadopitys verticillata, having linear leaves growing in umbrellalike whorls, cultivated as an ornamental.

Origin of umbrella pine

1
First recorded in 1870–75

Words Nearby umbrella pine

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How to use umbrella pine in a sentence

  • Under a vast umbrella pine we dismounted, rested, and saw Capri.

    New Italian sketches | John Addington Symonds
  • The Camerons have taken that big pink house over there, with the umbrella pine in the garden.

  • No American evergreen known to me resembles the umbrella pine sufficiently to be a fair object of comparison with it.

    Man and Nature | George P. Marsh
  • The cypress and the umbrella pine are not merely conventional types of the Italian landscape.

    Man and Nature | George P. Marsh
  • The umbrella pine (Sciadopitys) is a very striking conifer, and does well everywhere.

British Dictionary definitions for umbrella pine

umbrella pine

noun
  1. another name for stone pine

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