whitebark
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]whitebark (plural whitebarks)
- The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- 2007 January 30, Charles Petit, “In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It”, in New York Times[1]:
- But the seeds of the whitebark pine, the pine nuts, feed Clark’s nutcracker birds; red squirrels, which store the nuts underground; and grizzly bears.