pinery
Noun
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Noun
pinery (plural pineries)
- A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.
- A pinewood, pinetum, forest or grove where pine trees are grown.
- 1972, Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:
- Early in the Moon of Popping Trees they [High Back Bone, Yellow Eagle, and Crazy Horse] began tantalizing the woodcutters in the pinery and the soldiers guarding the wagons which brought wood to Fort Phil Kearny. [Red Cloud's War, 1866]
- 1972, Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:
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