Definitions for jack pine

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

jack′ pine`(n.)

  1. a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S.

    Category: Plants

Origin of jack pine:

1880–85

Princeton's WordNet

  1. jack pine, Pinus banksiana(noun)

    slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark

Wiktionary

  1. jack pine(Noun)

    an evergreen tree, Pinus banksiana, scrub pine


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