pine tree
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- noun
- /paɪn tri/
:
pino
- The tall pine tree provided shade during our picnic in the park.
- green pine trees
We've ordered some wool stickers, which are like pine trees.
- We've ordered some wool stickers, which are like pine trees.
- Well, we were going in strafe and went too low and hooked his skid on a pine tree and crashed.
- I think that'll give it a lot of like that tufty, kind of WAVY look that the big boughs of pine trees have.
- And then I've rolled flat another little piece of blue fondant and I cut out this little pine tree right for the middle and trace it out, cut it out.
- I just turned around and I'm back away, walk back out of the forest, crawled out and I got to the the pine trees where the fence was crunched.
Examples
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The air was clean and smelled of the pine trees that blew in the early-morning wind.
Fiction book (1993) -
Along the winding mountain roads, we encounter roadblocks of massive pine trees, hastily chopped and placed in our path.
Academic text (2004) -
And now these pine trees smell so strong.
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But we recently had two big pine trees removed from this area here.
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And Oh my gosh, can you see that big pine tree back there?
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We walked through the dark woods and felt the tall, silent pine trees watching us.
Fiction book (1993) -
On the left, a tall pine tree with spreading branches framed the view.
Academic text (2006) -
Sagebrush and an occasional pine tree were scattered across the land.
Fiction book (1991) -
I wandered through the campus of brick buildings, pine trees, and green lawns and found the library.
Academic text (2007) -
When it's cold and wet, the pine tree seeds just can't disperse on the wind and plant new trees very successfully.
Synonyms
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An evergreen tree with long needle leaves and cones
A tree in the Pinus group that has long needles and cones
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The meaning 'an evergreen conifer of the genus Pinus' is directly derivable from combining 'pine' (a type of conifer) and 'tree' (a tall perennial plant). This is a straightforward noun–noun compound that specifies a subtype and follows common compositional patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Pine tree comes from a simple picture: people saw a tall evergreen with long, needle-like leaves and hard cones and called that kind of tree a pine, so the name joined pine and tree. That's why Pine tree now means an 'evergreen' with needle-shaped leaves and cones.