scrub pine
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8.2
- noun
- /skrʌb paɪn/
- US
:
pino enano
- Why, practically all the places around Tara have gone back to scrub pine.
- stand of scrub pine
Examples
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But then I saw the firemen were busily hosing the underbrush and scrub pines, so the fire wouldn't spread to the woods.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her property extended back to a line of scrub pines maybe a hundred yards away.
Fiction book (1999) -
Only a few bare scrub pines grew out of the rock.
Fiction book (1995) -
The facility, which had been an army base in both world wars, was set in the isolated scrub pines of eastern Long Island.
Academic text (2005) -
Now the fields were overgrown with scrub pine and tall yellow grass.
Fiction book (1990) -
The town was founded a generation after the end of the Civil War in the scrub pine forests of South Georgia and grew as a shipping point for lumber and cotton.
Blog text (1) -
All the party bundled up in cloaks as soft-leaved trees gave way to cedar and scrub pine.
Fiction book (1992) -
The year I turned twelve, my grandfather died and left my father six hundred acres of worthless scrub-pine property ten miles inland of North Myrtle Beach.
Fiction book (1996) -
They camped on an island that was mostly sandy beach and bleached driftwood encircling a stand of scrub pine.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her property extended back to a line of scrub pine trees maybe a hundred yards away.
Synonyms
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6.0
A small shrubby pine tree with twisted branches and short needles in pairs
A small pine tree from the eastern United States that often has twisted branches and short needles in pairs
A small bushy pine tree from the eastern United States with twisted branches and short needles in pairs
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small, shrubby pine tree' is directly predictable from combining 'scrub' (low, dense shrubs) with 'pine' (a pine tree); the first element simply specifies a shrubby type of pine. This noun–noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Scrub pine gets its name from scrub, meaning low, bushy plants, and pine, the tree. This gives the picture of a pine that grows short and twisted like a bush on poor ground, so it now means 'a small, shrubby pine tree'.