Noun: ancient pine
- Small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops
"Ancient pines on Wheeler Peak have survived millennia";
- Pinus longaeva
Derived forms: ancient pines