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

The lowest pine barren is higher than the loftiest mangrove wilderness.

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune

The country passed over was nearly a pine barren, thinly inhabited, but showing some, though very few, good plantations.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

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

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Bradford Torrey

"I hope not," he said,—as if liberty to buy and sell would be a dreadful blow to a man living in a shanty in a Florida pine barren!

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Bradford Torrey