pinecone
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1.2
- noun
- /ˈpaɪnˌkoʊn/
:
piña
- A large pinecone fell from the tree, landing softly on the ground.
Examples
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Now, this is a pinecone, and I'm painting it for Christmas.
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After walks in the woods, he emptied his pockets of small and perfect pinecones, like bunched brown fists.
Fiction book (1996) -
The first pinecone she found was empty, but the second still held fast to its nuts.
Fiction book (1998) -
Darren found one pinecone that was red.
Academic text (2013) -
The children love painting the pinecones and playing "Mother May I?"
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Maybe there were some pinecones under the big pine tree.
Fiction book (1998) -
We eat the seeds in pinecones.
Fiction book (2002) -
We go on quick walks and he collects leaves, pinecones, rocks, and whatever else catches his eye.
Blog text (6) -
Dewie Lovelace and I were watching as a squirrel dismantled a pinecone.
Fiction book (1999) -
The children collected pinecones during their nature walk in the forest.
Synonyms
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3.9
A plant part with overlapping scales that holds seeds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pinecone is simply pine (the tree) + cone (a 'cone-shaped' object like an ice-cream cone). Think of a wooden ice-cream cone that holds the tree's seeds, which is why a pinecone is the woody part that contains a pine tree's seeds.