yellow pine

noun

1

: any of several North American pines (such as a Ponderosa pine or longleaf pine) with yellowish wood

2

: the wood of a yellow pine

Examples of yellow pine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Deltec uses hefty southern yellow pine as timber, the extra-sturdy pieces sawn from the heart of these trees. —Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 9 July 2024

Baltimore is the northernmost city where valuable old-growth yellow pine can be salvaged, for example. —Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023

Baltimore is a brick city but this pair (there were once a row of eight) of oak and yellow pine structures, with cypress shingles, beat the odds of fire and development. —Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2023

Rex Lumber owns sawmills in six states, employing about 360 workers who harvest lumber from yellow pine. —William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 5 July 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1709, in the meaning defined at sense 1