piney
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- adjective
- /ˈpaɪni/
- US
:
de los bosques de pino
- The piney woods, the mangroves, the creeks, the glades.
- piney woods
Examples
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I remember my own innocence growing up with my mama and daddy right here in the piney woods of East Texas, where the Lord is easily found.
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And beyond them was a sweep of fields and flat piney woods that stretched to the western horizon.
Fiction book (1997) -
We'll hole up in the piney woods until the Kid feels better.
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Back home, he had the church lot, the Fast Ass convenience store, and the piney ridge.
Fiction book (2000) -
We turned off the highway and sped down a deep, black, piney road.
Fiction book (1992) -
Maybe it was because he grew up poor in South Georgia, in those piney woods, where his father worked in a lumber mill.
Fiction book (1999) -
Enoch Guice, a man who loved his work as my father did his, came from those same piney woods of South Georgia.
Fiction book (1999) -
Livingston, in rural Polk County, is a sleepy little town about 70 miles north of Houston in the deep piney woods of East Texas.
Academic text (2002) -
Past a small pond and through a piney hollow, the road curved sharply to the right and stopped just at the crest of an almost unnoticeable hill.
Fiction book (1991) -
The lush, green landscape of the piney woods is home to many species of wildlife.
Compounds
- Informal
A smell or feeling like pine trees that makes a place feel fresh like winter
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Piney also comes from pine + -y and was used for the 'Piney Woods', a region in the southern United States full of pine trees. So calling a place piney in this sense means it is like that region — covered with or coming from pines.