pine family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genusCedrus ), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.

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Example Sentences

But if the more subtle aroma found in the Georgia woods is more to your liking, choose something from the pine family.

From Time Magazine Archive

The kauri-tree belongs to the pine family, yet is quite distinct from all other conifers, bearing a lance-shaped tapering leaf, and growing to great heights.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

When the little seed awoke, it wore the green dress of the pine family.

From Wild Life on the Rockies by Mills, Enos Abijah

The trees were for the most part of the pine family.

From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.

The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya,—a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray