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The needles slowly drift down from loblollies and longleaf pines, blanketing lawns and driveways and piling on top of shrubs and flowers.—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2025 This brought the removal of native longleaf pines, which are more fire resistant than loblollies.—Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025 Eight hours after his arrest, Cristian was sent to the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, La., about four hours from New Orleans, on the edge of a forest of loblolly and longleaf pines.—Eric Cortellessa, Time, 10 June 2025 The loblolly is among several species of southern yellow pine.—Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2023 The suit alleges that the Brazilian plywood mills source all of their veneer from fast-growing plantations of loblolly and slash pine.—David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2019
Word History
Etymology
probably from English dialect lob to boil + obsolete English dialect lolly broth
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