bristlecone pine
noun1
Any of certain small, slow-growing pine trees found in the western United States, of three species in Pinus subsect. Balfourianae, some of which are over 4,000 years old.
- Hyponyms
- Rocky Mountains bristlecone pine of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, Great Basin bristlecone pine, of Utah, Nevada, and eastern California, foxtail pine, of California and southern Oregon