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Webster 1913 Edition


Lambert pine

Lam′bert pineˊ

Noun.
[So called from
Lambert
, an English botanist.]
(Bot.)
The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (
Pinus Lambertiana
). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.