pinaster
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pinaster
C16: from Latin: wild pine, from pīnus pine
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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 George Russell Shaw
Pinus pinaster: epinastic downward movement of a young leaf, produced by a young plant in a pot, traced on a vertical glass under a skylight, from 6.45 A.M.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
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 needle-like leaves of Pinus pinaster form a bundle whilst young; afterwards they slowly diverge, so that those on the upright shoots become horizontal.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
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 Charles Darwin
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