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Found 2 items, similar to Pitch pine.

Dictionary: dictd_www.dict.org_gcide
Definition: Pitch pine

Pitch \Pitch\, n. [OE. pich, AS. pic, L. pix; akin to Gr. ?.]
1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by
boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of
ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.,
to preserve them.
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
--Ecclus.
xiii. 1.
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2. (Geol.) See Pitchstone.
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Amboyna pitch, the resin of Dammara australis. See
Kauri.

Burgundy pitch. See under Burgundy.

Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree
(Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum.

Jew's pitch, bitumen.

Mineral pitch. See Bitumen and Asphalt.

Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal.

Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy
luster.

Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine,
yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.
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Dictionary: WordNet
Definition: pitch pine

pitch pine
n 1: large 3-needled pine of southeastern United States having
very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is
red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree [syn:
longleaf pine, southern yellow pine, Georgia pine,
Pinus palustris]
2: large 3-needled pine of the eastern United States and
southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine
[syn: northern pitch pine, Pinus rigida]