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

"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 Torrey, Bradford

The little grey reared and plunged and I landed—where, I don’t know; but the next that I remember, I was standing alone in the pine barren.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

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

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

The southern provinces are the countries where nature has formed the greatest variety of alligators, snakes, serpents; and scorpions, from the smallest size, up to the pine barren, the largest species known here.

From Letters from an American Farmer by St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector