pine barren

American  

noun

1. a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States.

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Etymology

Origin of pine barren

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35

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pine barren

In the blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gen. Morgan drew up his men in an open pine barren, the militia of about four hundred men, under Col.

From A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade by William Dobein James

There was a veritable paradise of birds in the pine barren, Dick Sherrill had said, robins and bluebirds, flickers and woodpeckers with blazing cockades, shrikes and chewinks.

From Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

Whether the monotonous stretches of pine barren depress mentally, or frequent recurring "ager" prostrates physically, who shall say?

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon

One does for the Southern pine barren what the other does for the Northern berry pasture.

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Bradford Torrey