(n) tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree, Syn. weymouth pine, Pinus strobus, eastern white pine
(n) tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature, Syn. Pinus monticola, silver pine, mountain pine
(n) any of several diseases of pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium and marked by destructive invasion of bark and sapwood and producing blisters externally, Syn. white-pine rust, white pine blister rust
[ひめこまつ, himekomatsu] (n) (1) Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora); (2) (See 子の日の松) small pine (esp. one pulled from the ground during "ne-no-hi-no-asobi")