ancient pine

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ancient pine - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ancient pine
      n 1: small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to
           the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and
           short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming
           rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to
           5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops [syn: ancient pine
           , Pinus longaeva]