noun
1.
a. : a tall-growing pine ( Pinus strobus ) of eastern No. America having smooth bark, long-stalked green cones, leaves in clusters of five, and young shoots with tufts of hair below the insertion of the leaf bundles — called also American white pine, eastern white pine ; see tree illustration
b. : any of several other evergreen trees felt to resemble the white pine especially in having leaves in bundles of five: as
(1) : sugar pine
(2) : western white pine
(3) : limber pine
(4) : lodgepole pine
(5) : whitebark pine
(6) : engelmann spruce
c. : the wood of a white pine and especially of the eastern white pine which is much used in building construction
2.
a. Australia
(1) : any of several camphorwoods (especially Callitris robusta )
(2) : she-pine
(3) : colonial pine
b. New Zealand : kahikatea