piñon
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- noun
- /ˈpɪn.jɒn/
- US
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piñón
- The piñon tree has distinctive needles and produces delicious seeds that are often used in cooking.
- piñon pine
- piñon nuts
- piñon trees
Examples
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His father was a Mexicano woodman who sold piñon and cedar.
Fiction book (1995) -
Mesas in red, tan, and purple thrust out of the red-tan desert, all dotted with darker juniper and piñon.
Fiction book (1999) -
There was a new hill of red ants near the big piñon, built over the summer.
Fiction book (1995) -
And how to roast piñon nuts.
Fiction book (1993) -
The air smells of piñon.
Blog text (8) -
And we came out of the top of it into trees—piñon pines, on flat sandy ground.
Fiction book (1991) -
Gigantic pillars of red rock dwarfed the ponderosa pines and the piñon trees.
Fiction book (1993) -
The closest road access to the Snyder benchmark still requires a moderate hike westward through a dense piñon pine and juniper woodland.
Academic text (2001) -
Annalisa liked the smell of the piñon fire in the center of the hogan and the feel of the scratchy wool blankets when she curled up on the cot.
Fiction book (1997) -
An old ranch road petered out at the base of the mesa where a stock trail began, winding through a dense thicket of juniper and piñon pine trees.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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An edible seed from some pine trees used in cooking and baking
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A small pine tree that makes edible seeds called pine nuts
A small tree with needle leaves that makes edible seeds called pine nuts
A small pine tree in the southwestern United States with edible seeds called pine nuts
A pine tree with single needles that makes edible nuts
A small pine tree with one needle in each group and edible nuts, native to the United States southwest
A pine tree with one needle in each cluster that makes edible seeds
A small pine tree from Mexico and southern Texas that makes edible seeds called pinyon nuts
A small pine tree from Mexico and southern Texas with edible seeds and short needles
A small pine tree that grows on dry rocky slopes and makes nuts people can eat
A very small pine tree with one needle in each small bundle found in southern California
A small pine tree from California that has single needles and cones with edible seeds
A small pine tree with groups of five needles from California and Baja California, sometimes with three or four needles
A small pine tree with mostly five needles in a group that grows in southern California and northern Baja California
A small pine tree that produces edible nuts
An edible seed from some pine trees eaten as a snack or used in cooking
A small edible seed from a pine tree used in cooking
Surface Forms
Etymology
Piñon comes from the Spanish word piñón, which comes from piña meaning 'pine cone' and is related to the English word pine. It first named the 'pine nut' inside the cone, so today piñon can mean the tree that makes those nuts or the edible seed itself.