Bishop Pine (Noun)
Meaning
Two-needled or three-needled pinon mostly of northwestern California coast.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Bishop pine frequently grow in poor soil and on rocky outcroppings along the northwest coast of California.
- Bishop pine wood is a softwood that is straight-grained and has a scent similar to that of redwood.
- The coast of northwestern California and adjacent islands are inhabited by narrow endemic species that depend almost totally on bishop pine.
- Another highly evolved adaptation concerns the reliance of certain bishop pine-cone seeds open to be taken out, most likely with help from an extinct type of squirrel.
- The Channel Islands, by California's coast, once also had close to two hundred thousand acres of thriving bishop pine forests.