pine barren
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pine barren
An Americanism dating back to 1725–35
Example Sentences
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In the blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren.
From Time Magazine Archive
One does for the Southern pine barren what the other does for the Northern berry pasture.
From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford
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 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
More interesting, and a thousand times more memorable, than any flower or bird was the pine barren itself.
From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford
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