pine family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genusCedrus ), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.

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Example Sentences

But if the more subtle aroma found in the Georgia woods is more to your liking, choose something from the pine family.

From Time Magazine Archive

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Here was pointed out a fine, lofty specimen of the umbrella tree, of the pine family, with broad leaves of a deep green.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

When the little seed awoke, it wore the green dress of the pine family.

From Wild Life on the Rockies by Mills, Enos Abijah

There were still the same trees, belonging, for the most part, to the pine family.

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules