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

Example Sentences

In the blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 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

There was a veritable paradise of birds in the pine barren, Dick Sherrill had said, robins and bluebirds, flickers and woodpeckers with blazing cockades, shrikes and chewinks.

From Diane of the Green Van by Dalrymple, Leona