pinaster
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pinaster
C16: from Latin: wild pine, from pīnus pine
Example Sentences
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The turpentine industry, once associated with this species, has gradually been abandoned for the more copious product of P. pinaster.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
With two exceptions, P. halepensis and P. pinaster, they are New World species.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
—Can any of your correspondents tell me why the termination aster is used in a depreciatory sense in Latin, as poetaster, a bad poet; oleaster, the wild olive; pinaster, the wild pine?
From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
The taproot of the stone pine is nearly as strong as that of P. pinaster; and, like that species, the trees, when transplanted, generally lean to one side, from the head not being correctly balanced.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various
Pinus pinaster: circumnutation of hypocotyl, with filament fixed across its summit, traced on horizontal glass, from 10 A.M.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
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