pinaster
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pinaster
C16: from Latin: wild pine, from pīnus pine
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We have seen in a former chapter that the leaves of Pinus pinaster and Austriaca are continually circumnutating.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
At a casual glance the whole tree might readily be mistaken for the pinaster, but the leaves are shorter, less tufted, and always more erect.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various
They feed on the leaves of the pinaster, and their peculiar coloring offers a general similarity to the brown twigs and narrow green leaves of a conifer.
From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by David Starr Jordan
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 George Russell Shaw
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
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