pineries
pineries is the plural of pinery.
Meaning of pinery
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.
- The record weight for pinery-grown pineapples was an astonishing fourteen pounds, twelve ounces—a weight that no imported pineapple could achieve. Pineapples fit neatly into the national crazes for natural things in England,[…]2014 May 26, David Dewitt, Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World, Catapult, →ISBN
- A pinewood, pinetum, forest or grove where pine trees are grown.
- 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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- What is pineries the plural of?
- Pineries is the plural of pinery.
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