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Noun: Pinus longaeva
  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
    - ancient pine

Type of: pine, pine tree, true pine

Encyclopedia: Pinus longaeva

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