ponderosa pine
noun
Examples of ponderosa pine in a Sentence
Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
Norton pointed to a ponderosa pine that stood next to my porch.
—Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2023
But to reach the route, climbers first must descend through a ponderosa pine forest, completing up to ten rappels against the backdrop of a perennial waterfall cascading from a hole in the sandstone.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
More than 1,600 species of plants have been identified on this land that spans temperate rainforest to a dry ponderosa pine ecosystem.
—Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
Walnut Canyon is packed top to bottom with life zones and microhabitats highlighting cactus and agave growing just footsteps from Douglas fir and ponderosa pine.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
But in a few other plots, the Forest Service has planted species, like the relatively drought-tolerant ponderosa pine, that don’t yet inhabit that region of the country.
—Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
Their analysis showed that Ancestral Puebloans constructed with ponderosa pine and Douglas fir, mountain species that were widely distributed and accessible.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
Montana Montana's state tree is the ponderosa pine.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
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Word History
New Latin ponderosa, specific epithet of Pinus ponderosa, from Latin, feminine of ponderosus ponderous
1878, in the meaning defined above
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