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pineries

pineries is the plural of pinery.

Meaning of pinery

Noun

pinery (plural pineries)

  1. 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
  2. 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

Questions about pineries

What is pineries the plural of?
Pineries is the plural of pinery.

Words near pineries in the dictionary

  1. pineocytomatous
  2. piner
  3. Pinera
  4. Pineras
  5. Pineridge
  6. pineries
  7. Pinero
  8. Pineroesque
  9. Pinerola
  10. Pineronian
  11. Pineros

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