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umbrella pine

noun

Definition of umbrella pine

1 : a tall Japanese evergreen tree (Sciadopitys verticillata) of the family Pinaceae that has a symmetrical crown and needle-shaped leaves borne in umbrellalike whorls at the ends of the twigs
2a : stone pine sense 2
b : tanyosho pine

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