Meaning of piñon pine | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of several species of North American pines in Pinus subsect. Cembroides that bear edible seeds (pine nuts), especially Pinus edulis; the nut pine.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“The sage and thickets of oak and brakes of alder gave place to piñon pine growing out of rocky soil.”

“Love said he liked this place because he could see so much from it, and had stopped here many times across the decades, to lean against a piñon pine and sort through the country, like an astronomer with the whole sky above him sorting through the stars.”

“He inhaled deeply, smelling piñon pines and sage.”

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