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

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

One does for the Southern pine barren what the other does for the Northern berry pasture.

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford

Whether the monotonous stretches of pine barren depress mentally, or frequent recurring "ager" prostrates physically, who shall say?

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.

All things considered, the pine barren country is very attractive, and if there were grass, water and game, it would be a fine place for a hunter.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various