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Digger pine

noun

  1. a pine, Pinus sabiniana, of California, having drooping, grayish-green needles and large, heavy cones with edible seeds.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Digger pine1

1880–85, Americanism; after the Digger Indians, who used the tree as a food source
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The salmon spirit, for instance, likes leaves or water; a sucker of the mountains would eat mountain pine nuts, but a valley sucker needs nuts off the digger pine.

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The Western pitch pine, most abundant in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains, at elevations of about a mile above the sea, has cones not unlike those of the digger pine, in the armament of their scales.

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The digger pine is a western California tree of the semi-arid foothill country.

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The terrain was extremely hilly and was covered with oak and coniferous trees, probably principally digger pine, although Font says he saw "spruce."

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Finally, though, they got one into a little Digger Pine.

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